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Hide this message. Though a number of copies of this edition of the book, in mulberry-colored paper boards, got out, others were seized and banned in both England and the United States. Knopf in the United States. What was it that these publishers hoped to accomplish with this cleansing process? Were clean living and clean reading synonymous and equally meritorious? It focuses on a passionate affair between an aristocratic woman and a gamekeeper. It was first published in Italy in and in France the following year but was not published in the UK until for fear of prosecution over its explicit content.
When it finally was the publishing house, Penguin Books, was put on trial for obscenity. Before the trial, Lady Dorothy compiled a list of significant passages on the headed stationery of the Central Criminal Court, noting the page number and adding her own comments, such as "love making", "coarse" and so on.
The trial caused a sensation when the publisher was found not guilty. The following year, Lawrence fell in love with Frieda Weekley, the German wife of a fellow teacher. The pair fled to Germany and wed after Frieda divorced her husband. In , Lawrence published his first major novel, Sons and Lovers, an autobiographical novel set in a coal town. He died of tuberculosis in France in , at the age of But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
On November 2, , the Chicago Cubs win their first World Series championship since , beating the Cleveland Indians, , in a thrilling Game 7 delayed by rain.
On November 2, , the first residential crew arrives aboard the International Space Station. The arrival of Expedition 1 marked the beginning of a new era of international cooperation in space and of the longest continuous human habitation in low Earth orbit, which continues On November 2, , a truck explodes in the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan, killing an estimated 3, people, mostly Soviet soldiers traveling to Kabul.
In one of the greatest upsets in presidential election history, Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman defeats his Republican challenger, Governor Thomas E.
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