David Herbert Richards Lawrence was a 20th-century English writer whose prolific and diverse output profoundly reflected on the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. His work confronts issues of emotional health, spontaneity, human sexuality, and instinct, exploring the vitality of human connection. Despite facing official persecution and misrepresentation during his lifetime, Lawrence's legacy is that of a visionary thinker and a significant figure of literary modernism. He is now recognized for his artistic integrity and moral seriousness, offering a distinctive voice in the English novel tradition.
Lady Chatterley's Lover has been notorious since it was written. Banned for 30 years it was published unexpurgated, by Penguin Books in 1960 and immediately became the first novel charged under the newly written Obscene Publications Act. The famous story of life, love and society in 1920s England, re-worked as an hilarious comic book by 'Britain's zaniest cartoonist' Hunt Emerson.