BannedBooks
Cover of Lady Chatterley's Lover
1928

Lady Chatterley's Lover

D.H. Lawrence

Constance Chatterley, married to a paralyzed aristocrat, begins an affair with the gamekeeper Oliver Mellors. Lawrence's frank depiction of sexual desire across class lines and his use of four-letter words led to the novel being banned in Britain and the United States for decades; a landmark 1960 obscenity trial in the UK finally resulted in publication.

sexualityclasscensorshipgender

Why this book is challenged

  • obscenity
  • sexually explicit language
  • explicit descriptions of sexual acts
  • use of profanity