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Lady Chatterley's Lover

Book • 2012

The novel centers around Lady Constance Chatterley, who is married to Sir Clifford Chatterley, a wealthy and paralyzed war veteran.

Constance's marriage is emotionally and physically unfulfilling, leading her to an affair with Oliver Mellors, the gamekeeper on her husband's estate.

The relationship between Constance and Mellors highlights the class differences and the search for integrity and wholeness through a balance of mind and body.

The novel is known for its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse and its reflection on the impact of industrialization on modern society.

It ends with Constance and Mellors separated but hopeful for a future together once their divorces are finalized.

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Mentioned in 18 episodes

Mentioned by

Lex Fridman

in a discussion about books that were controversial for their time due to sexual content.

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Mentioned by Jordan Peterson while discussing the gradual desensitization to pornography in culture, referencing Lady Chatterley's Lover.

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Mentioned by

Douglas Irwin

when discussing Senator Reed Smoot's disapproval of its content.

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Mentioned by

Elizabeth Joh

when introducing an opening line from the book, and discussing its controversial history and censorship.

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Mentioned by

Elizabeth Joh

as a novel written by D.H. Lawrence that revolves around an affair and was subjected to bans.

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Mentioned by Neil Ferguson when describing the wave that swept away the Victorian remnants of censorship.

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Mentioned by

Brian Cox

as a book he would have read as a child.

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Mentioned by

Catherine Edwards

as an example of a story about a rich woman who leaves a wealthy man for a blue-collar worker.

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Mentioned by

Elizabeth Joh

as a novel written by D.H. Lawrence in 1928 that revolves around an affair.

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Mentioned by

Cara Clare

as a book that she is doing a vampire retelling of.

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Erwähnt von

Christoph Vormweg

als letzter und berühmtester Roman von D.H. Lawrence.

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Wurde von Speaker 2 als einer der größten Skandale der Literaturgeschichte genannt.

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Mentioned by

Eimear McBride

in the context of her early positive experience reading D.H. Lawrence.

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Mentioned by

Jacke Wilson

as a book that impacted his views on Ben Franklin and conventional wisdom.

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Mentioned by

Horatio Gould

as the opening to Jonathan Sandbrook's book, marking the beginning of the 1960s.

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Mentioned to illustrate how the publisher was convicted for distributing a novel deemed obscene.

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Mentioned by

Katie Razzall

as an example of Penguin's famous defense of their author in court.

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Mentioned by

Justin Andrews

in the context of an old English movie his wife enjoys.

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Mentioned by

Andrew Doyle

in the context of books that faced obscenity trials.

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Mentioned in reference to sexual landmarks of the 60s and the legalization of abortion.

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