Here’s an interesting take on one of modern literature’s masterpieces as remembered by Cass Canfield in a section headed “Pornography and Censorship” in his memoir Up & Down & Around: A Publisher Recollects the Time of His Life.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, by D.H. Lawrence, was another novel that stirred the waters in the post-World War I period. Opinion on this book was sharply divided, and, of the reviews of it I have seen, a British one that appeared in Field and Stream in 1959 took a most original viewpoint:
“Although written many years ago, Lady Chatterley’s Lover has just been reissued. This fictional account of the day-to-day life of an English gamekeeper is still of considerable interest to outdoor-minded readers as it contains many passages on pheasant raising, the apprehending of poachers, ways to control vermin, and other chores and duties of the professional gamekeeper. Unfortunately, one is obliged to wade through many pages of extraneous material in order to discover and savor these sidelights on the management of a Midlands shooting estate, and in this reviewer’s opinion, this book cannot take the place of J.R. Miller’s Practical Gamekeeping.” Obviously, some reviewers find what they want to find within the pages they are recommending to their reading audience.