D. H. Lawrence's uncompromisingly candid novel deals in poetic and sexually explicit language with the passionate relationship between Lady Constance Chatterley and her husband's forthright and powerfully mascu- line gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. Trapped in a marriage which has become sterile and joyless since her husband's return from the trenches of the First World War partially paralysed and confined to a wheelchair, Connie seizes the chance of sexual fulfilment she had thought lost to her for ever.