Lady Chatterley's Lover

D.H. Lawrence 1928

Devastation Rating

Ugly Crying
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Our Take

Connie Chatterley crosses the class line into the gamekeeper's arms and Lawrence makes the crossing feel like revolution. The scandal was always about more than sex — it was about a woman choosing her body over her station. The tenderness between them is an act of class warfare.

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