Catalog / Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lady Chatterley's Lover
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D. H. Lawrence
Constance Chatterley, trapped in a marriage without intimacy, begins an affair with the estate gamekeeper. The novel explores desire, class, and sexual freedom.
- First publication
- Publisher
- Tipografia Giuntina
- Original language
- English
- ISBN-10
- 0141441496
- ISBN-13
- 9780141441498
- ASIN
- 0141441496
Why was Lady Chatterley's Lover challenged?
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence is in this catalog because a sourced record documents an at-risk action in United States in 1929. The novel was banned by U.S. Customs from 1929 for obscenity.
The catalog records the scope as distribution. That is not a claim that the book is banned everywhere, or that a failed complaint has the same force as a prohibition. Open the sources under Bans and restrictions. Unsourced rumors are omitted.
Readers who search “why was Lady Chatterley's Lover banned” should read the status label first. Banned, restricted, and at risk are defined on the methodology page and are not interchangeable.
Bans and restrictions
At risk · Distribution
The novel was banned by U.S. Customs from 1929 for obscenity.
A historical import censorship case documented by the ALA.
- Source → Banned & Challenged Classics American Library Association
Other questions
- Is Lady Chatterley's Lover banned?
- In this catalog the primary documented status is “at risk” in United States, 1929. That is not a worldwide ban. Scope and sources are listed below.
- Why was Lady Chatterley's Lover challenged?
- The novel was banned by U.S. Customs from 1929 for obscenity.
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