The Trial Of Lady Chatterley's Lover - Couverture souple

Bedford, Sybille

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1907970975 ISBN 13 : 9781907970979

Editeur : Daunt Books, 2016

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The prosecution then read that extraordinary page about the source of life. The court sat rapt...

' "The weight of a man's balls" puritanical?'

The witness: 'Yes, it is puritanical in its reverence.'

'Reverence for what?' screamed the prosecutor. 'The balls?'

'Indeed, yes,' said the witness gently.

When Penguin released a new, unexpurgated edition of D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover in 1960, they were charged with the crime of publishing obscene material and made to defend the book's literary merit in court. Thus began one of the most famous trials of the 20th century.

There to take it all in was Sybille Bedford. With her trademark wit and flair, she presents us with a play-by-play of the trial: from the prosecution's questioning of the novel's thirteen unvarying sex scenes and 66 swear words, to the dozens of witnesses who testified including the Bishop of Woolwich and E. M. Forster.

Bedford gives us a timeless and dramatic account that captures one of the most fascinating and absurd moments in both legal and publishing history, when attitudes and morals shifted forever.

With a new introduction by Thomas Grant

Biographie de l'auteur

Sybille Bedford (1911-2006) was born in Charlottenburg, Germany, and grew up in Italy, France, and England. A Visit to Don Otavio was her first published book in 1953, and she followed it with three novels, A Legacy (1956), A Favourite of the Gods (1963), and A Compass Error (1968). Her semi-autobiographical novel, Jigsaw, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989. Her memoir, Quicksands, was published in 2005.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Daunt Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1907970975
• ISBN 13: 9781907970979
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80