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Lady Chatterley's Lover

Name: Lady Chatterley's Lover
Author: D. H. Lawrence
ISBN: 9780141441498

D. H. Lawrence, 1928

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Mad Men · S1 E3 · Joan Holloway · Sterling Cooper secretarial pool

Joan returns the office copy: Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lawrence's 1928 novel about an aristocrat's affair with her gamekeeper, kept out of U.S. stores uncut until a 1959 court ruling let Grove Press publish it. The season is set in 1960, so this copy is about as fresh as legal gets. Britain put Penguin on trial for printing it the same year.

Sources: The "Mad Men" Reading List, New York Public Library · Marriage of Figaro (Mad Men), Wikipedia · Mad Men: The Literary Hits, Chicago Public Library · Mad Men Reading List, King County Library System · The Books of Mad Men, Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America

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