With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercours Lady Chatterley's Lover is the novel with which Г). II. Lawrence is mo often associated. First published privately in Florence in 1928, it became world-wide best-seller when Penguin Books successfully resisted an attem by the British Director of Public Prosecutions to prevent them publishing a unexpurgated edition. The famous 'Ladv Ghatterley trial' heralded the sexu| revolution of the coming decades and signalled the defeat of Establishmei prudery. . .Yet Lawrence himself was hardly a liberationist and the conservatism < many aspects of his novel would later lay it open to attacks from the politic avant-garde and