ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

AGES ERA PERIOD

20TH CENTURY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
When was the ban finally lifted on D. H. Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover, written in 1928.
A
1930
B
1945
C
1960
D
2000
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The book was first published privately in 1928, but it wasn’t until 1959 that a ban on the book was lifted in the U.S., and 1960 that an uncensored version was published in the United Kingdom.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lady Chatterley’s Lover, novel by D. H. Lawrence, published in a limited English-language edition in Florence (1928) and in Paris (1929). It was first published in England in an expurgated version in 1932.

Detailed explanation-3: -The original book was just as steamy as its film adaptation made almost a century later-and much, much more controversial. D.H. Lawrence, a famed British author known for his radical and sexually explicit works like Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, and Women in Love, published Lady Chatterley’s Lover in 1928.

Detailed explanation-4: -The novel ends with Mellors working on a farm, waiting for his divorce, and Connie living with her sister, also waiting: the hope exists that, in the end, they will be together.

Detailed explanation-5: -Lady Chatterley’s Lover was Lawrence’s last book, written in Italy as he was dying from TB. He wrote it in a great rush of creative fervour, as if he knew how little time he had left.

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