A controversial, much-discussed (and banned for years) masterpiece, the illicit love story of aristocrat Constance Chatterley and a working-class man, the gamekeeper Mellors. The book critiques the "life of the mind," which is definitively detached from the flesh (represented by Constance's disabled husband), and serves as an ode to the joy of sexual fulfillment.

It has been repeatedly adapted for film and television.