Lady Chatterley's Lover

Novel by D H Lawrence, printed privately in Florence in 1928 and in an expurgated form in England in 1932; in its original form it was not published until 1959 in the USA and 1960 in Britain after the obscenity laws had been successfully challenged. The novel explores the love affair between Constance Chatterley and her husband's gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors, and was suppressed owing to its detailed descriptions of the sexual act and its uncompromising language.

In 1960 Penguin Books were prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act of 1959, but after a celebrated trial, in which authors such as E M Forster defended the book's publication, Penguin Books were found not guilty of publishing an obscene book, so breaking the ban on the book's publication in Britain.