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        Lady Chatterley's Lover


        setting

        England

        time

        1920s

        language

        English

        region

        Western Europe

        year published

        1928

        page count

        360

        difficulty

        Advanced

        main characters

        Constance Chatterley, Oliver Mellors

        Rip's impressions

        Light porn compared to what's available today, because there is no more shock value in reading it; there is little to merit greatness. Especially compared to the rest of the body of Lawrence's work, some short stories and his other Dostoevskian masterpieces.

        first line

        Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)

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