Lady Chatterley's Lover
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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- I only read <<Lady Chatterley's Lover>>. It was quite a vivid description of a form of love that is more primitive and instinctive to my taste. I never imagined one can put those feeling into words.
Any other recommendations in this similar style (from Lawrence or others)?
- Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
The takeaway that's quickest to explain is that the best things in life are priceless. You might be surprised how few $ you can happily live on.
- In the words of Tom Lehrer
"I've got a hobby
Re-reading Lady Chatterley"
- You can present anything as positive. Ever since Lady Chatterley's Lover.
- "White Fang" and "Call of the Wild" are Jack London's best known novels, not his best novels IMHO. I prefer "Martin Eden" and "the Iron Heel", and am a bit mystified as to how his entire literary career has been boiled down to two dog books.
"Martin Eden" is about a mixed class relationship, with a wealthier woman becoming involved with a working class man. This is no "Lady Chatterley's Lover", but based partly on his parents' experience, not just his own.
- The UK has been doing that since at least the Victorian era; it's not the USA, it doesn't share the USA's position about freedom of expression being paramount.
Slightly more recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Chatterley's_Lover
