TRIAL OF LADY CHATTERLEYS LOVER (DAUNT BOOKS)

Sybille Bedford witnessed the 1960 trial when Penguin were charged with the crime of publishing obscene material and made to defend the literary merit of the unexpurgated edition of Lady Chatterly's Lover in a court of law. With her trademark wit and flair, presents us with a play-by-play of the trial: from the prosecution's questioning of the novel s thirteen 'unvarying' sex scenes and its 66 swear words, to the dozens of witnesses who testified including the Bishop of Woolwich and E. M. Forster.