A report on Penguin Books and Obscenity
The novel was at the time unpublished in the United Kingdom and the predicted obscenity trial, R v Penguin Books Ltd, not only marked Penguin as a fearless publisher, it also helped drive the sale of at least 3.5 million copies.
- Penguin BooksThe trial of Penguin Books over their publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover in 1960 failed to secure a conviction and the conviction in the 1971 trial of Oz magazine was overturned on appeal.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
1 linksLast novel by English author D. H. Lawrence, which was first published privately in 1928, in Italy, and in 1929, in France.
Last novel by English author D. H. Lawrence, which was first published privately in 1928, in Italy, and in 1929, in France.
An unexpurgated edition was not published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960, when it was the subject of a watershed obscenity trial against the publisher Penguin Books, which won the case and quickly sold three million copies.
The book was also banned for obscenity in the United States, Canada, Australia, India and Japan.
D. H. Lawrence
1 linksEnglish writer, novelist, poet and essayist.
English writer, novelist, poet and essayist.
Both novels were highly controversial and were banned on publication in the UK for obscenity, although Women in Love was banned only temporarily.
This edition was posthumously re-issued in paperback there both by Signet Books and by Penguin Books in 1946.