Lady Chatterley's Lover

De: D. H. Lawrence

Narrado por: Samantha Bond

The story of Lady Chatterley and her love for her husband's gamekeeper outraged the sensibilities of Edwardian England. Lawrence had already been dismissed as a purveyor of the obscene for the attitudes to sex that he had shown in The Rainbow, which had been fiercely suppressed on its publication in 1915. Chatterley, written in several versions around 1928 in Italy in the final part of Lawrence's life, was a deliberate choice on the author's part to address sex head on, describe the act and its pleasures in detail and put forward his belief that mankind had lost touch with its pagan and natural roots, its link to the earth and therefore its strength.

Lady Chatterley's Lover was banned from publication in Britain until 1960, when the radical new publishing house Penguin Books brought out a paperback edition and was immediately taken to court for obscenity. The trial that followed became one of the marking posts for the '60s' 'revolution', with arguments for the beauty of Lawrence's descriptions of love and sex finally conquering the prudish sensibilities that Lawrence so despised and leading to a landmark legal ruling in Penguin's favour. For all the campaigning and crusading that has accompanied Lady Chatterley's Lover, it remains in essence a beautiful description of a true and lasting passion.

Public Domain (P)2007 Silksoundbooks Limited

Samantha makes Lady Chatterley come alive

If you could sum up Lady Chatterley's Lover in three words, what would they be?

Classic Erotica doubled in intensity by Samatha Bonds seductive voice. Listen with someone you love.

Lady Chatterley's Lover

The text definitely has its limitations, even misogynistic in many places. But excellently presented by Samantha Bond. And the writing skills of D H Lawrence make up for any shortcomings in the concepts presented. Overall, enjoyed it very much.

Samantha Bond’s narration is captivating

This is not the best novel, but the narration is out of this world. I could listen to Samantha Bond read the phone book.

One of my favorite Classics

Honestly, I had no idea this book was going to be what it was. It's a shame that such an incredible literary offering was demonized and persecuted the way that this book was. I do hope you'll give it a chance and that you'll love it as much as I did. Thank you Mr. Lawrence.

Lady Chatterly’s lover

Great writing on love but more so on the vast difference between the 2 classes of the population

Very risqué, and so well written!

I feel somewhat changed, and, for lack of a better word, released having experienced this book.

Great novel

This great philosophical and sexually explicit novel is wonderfully conveyed by Samantha Bond. She draws us into the book.

Epic love story

I love this story. It is so common for people to be in a marriage that is no longer as it first was. Rather than being trapped in an unfulfilling marriage, Lady Chatterly risks everything for true love. In a time when women were to be seen and not heard, she really was a rebel in the way she stood up for herself and decided to take her chances than rely on a man for financial security.

The Only Way I Could Finish This Story

What did you like best about Lady Chatterley's Lover? What did you like least?

The thing I liked the most about the book is how Lady Chatterly and Mellors can have honest conversations about how they enjoy all their sexual contact with each other. These encounters lead to them both being honest with their feelings and thoughts, which I feel lead to love between them. They're both so intelligent in their thoughts and feelings that their sexual desires help them to not think negative thoughts.

The thing I liked least about is how stiff EVERYONE was throughout the book. Some characters changed their uppity attitudes but not all; their attitudes didn't change as much as I would have liked. I guess this was they way things were in the United Kingdom at the time this book takes place. It could also be a statement D.H. Lawrence was trying to make on the upper society.

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

If I were to change anything about this story it would have been all the lecturing the characters did. Sir Clifford Chatterly lectured his friends, Lady Chatterly, and Mrs. Bolton to boredom that everytime he started talking I just wanted him to get it over it. Lady Chatterly lectured herself during her sexual encounters which drove me crazy. Her self-lectures are so annoying sometimes that even though we were supposed to feel sorry for her and root for her. It made me like her less.

Have you listened to any of Samantha Bond’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

I haven't listen to any audiobooks where Samantha Bond narrated but it will not be my last. Her reading of "Lady Chatterly's Lover is the best version I have heard from all the samples Audible has.

Did Lady Chatterley's Lover inspire you to do anything?

"Lady Chatterly's Lover" made me want to make sure I never gave way to self-imposed solitude. Both Lady Chatterly and Mellors imposed solitude on themselves both mentally and physically from everyone, but when they meet they start realizing that their lives are so dull compared to when the other is around. I want to be open to being around other people because they bring me a happiness that I cannot get in being by myself.

Any additional comments?

I started reading the print version of this book but couldn't finish it. [Blame Sir Clifford and his friends lecturing so much.] This audiobook version was the perfect way to read this book; I wish I would have download it instead of reading the print version.

Well said!

The narrator of this classic did an outstanding job. She had a nuanced rendering of subtle differences in the different classes of English accents and Scottish brogues. The priggishness of the upper classes and the musicality of the earthy Common folk, danced in a tapestry of Delicious words and images.

This story is a treasure, and this reading does it perfect Justice.