Connie`s unhappy marriage to Clifford Chatterley is one scarred by mutual frustration and alienation. Crippled from wartime action, Clifford is confined to a wheelchair, while Connie`s solitary, sterile existence is contained within the narrow parameters of the Chatterley ancestral home, Wragby. She seizes her chance at happiness and freedom when she embarks on a passionate affair with the estate`s gamekeeper, Mellors, discovering a world of sexual opportunity and pleasure she`d thought lost to her. The explosive passion of Connie and Mellors` relationship - and the searing candour with which it is described - marked a watershed in twentieth century fiction, garnering Lady Chatterley`s Lover a wide and enduring readership and lasting notoriety. The text is taken from the privately published Author`s Unabridged Popular Edition of 1930, the last to be supervised in the author`s lifetime. It also includes Lawrence`s My Skirmish with Jolly Roger, his witty essay describing the pirating of this most notorious novel which was specially written as an Introduction to this edition.