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D. H. Lawrence · 1928
A novel set in post-WWI England following Constance Chatterley, wife of a paralyzed baronet, as she navigates marriage, freedom, and desire in the aftermath of war. Lawrence's prose explores themes of sexuality, social class, and personal liberation with philosophical depth and candid realism.
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What this book knows
Erotic tenderness between bodies breaks what class, intellect, and paralysis have killed in modern England.
embodiment
The sense of aloneness, of a creature purely alone, overwhelmed her. Not the stuff of beauty, but a lambency, the warm, white flame of a single life.
LCL-RC-054The stillness, and the timeless sort of patience, in a man impatient and passionate, that touched Connie's womb.
LCL-RC-074desire
He came near, his eyes looked into hers, but she could not understand the meaning. He had brought columbines and campions.
LCL-RC-193She felt his hand warmly and softly closing over her tail, like a benediction. The warmth ran through her womb.
LCL-RC-224erotic-as-power
How unspeakably humiliating! She was afraid, terrified of society and its unclean bite.
LCL-RC-223Dead fish of a gentleman, with his celluloid soul! And how they take one in, with their manners and their mock wistfulness.
LCL-RC-164Illuminates
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