Today’s
readers would hardly blink at the sex-scenes and four-letter words which were
considered so immoral in Lawrence’s time that only after much legal wrangling
the book was published thirty years after the author’s death.
The first
print of 200,000 copies sold out on the first day of publication. Within six
weeks 2 million copies had been sold. Not to offend the rest of the public, the
book was sold in a paper bag wrapping.
Some of D.H.
Lawrence’s better-known books include, ‘Sons and Lovers’, ‘The Rainbow’ and ‘Women
in Love’ as well as poems and short stories. One of my own favourites is ‘The ‘Odour
of Chrysanthemums’. In it the author has a theme common to a lot of his writing - the isolation in which people live even when in a
close relationship.
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