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Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence ' s novels , the 1928 Lady Chatterley ' s Lover is no longer distinguished for the once shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter - the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the gamekeeper who works for the estate owned by her husband .. When the full unexpurgated edition was published by Penguin Books in Britain in 1960 , the trial of Penguin under the Obscene Publications Act of 1959 was a major public event and a test of the new obscenity law .
This book powerfully demonstrates the importance of democracy and freedom of speech . It is still relevant today with its tale of corruption and misinformation in a worker ' s revolution that goes wrong . In the 1940s , Allied forces found the book critical of the USSR , and therefore considered too controversial to print during wartime . A play of Animal Farm was banned in Kenya in 1991 , because of its criticism of corrupt leaders . In 2002 it was banned in schools in the United Arab Emirates .
Banned in 1857 for its portrayal of adultery , the novel traces the story of Emma Bovary , a provincial doctor ' s wife , and her unsuccessful affairs . "
Banned for its offensive language , sexually explicit .
It has been banned in some US schools and libraries on grounds of pornography & violence .
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