EVERYMAN’s LIBRARY
Herewith our current stock of fiction and nonfiction titles from the fine Everyman’s Library. All hardcovers, all sewn-bound with a silk ribbon to keep your place, all with a chronology of the author’s life and literary and world events, all with discerning introductions, all with appropriate notes supporting the texts. I will write more soon about the long and honorable history of Everyman’s Library, its high production values, and the special features in every volume. For now, enjoy!
The listings are alphabetical by author’s last name.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Famously banned for indecency, Lawrence’s final novel is one of the most notorious and passionate love stories in literature.
Constance Reid, Lady Chatterley, is a young woman trapped in an unfulfilling marriage to an aristocrat whose war wounds have left him paralyzed. After her husband demands that she provide him with an heir, she enters into a liaison with their gamekeeper, a working-class man named Oliver Mellors. As their illicit relationship grows in tenderness, mutual respect, and sensual passion, Constance discovers that true fulfillment requires a real connection of both mind and body. Shocking to its original audience for its cross-class romance as well as for its explicit depictions of sex, the novel has long been hailed as the summit of Lawrence’s artistic achievement and one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century.