Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Foreword to The End of Obscenity, by Charles Rembar

Mailer's foreword to his cousin Charles Rembar's account of the Lady Chatterley, Tropic of Cancer, and Fanny Hill obscenity trials; first appeared in the British edition.

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A foreword to The End of Obscenity: The Trials of “Lady Chatterley,” “Tropic of Cancer” and “Fanny Hill” by Charles Rembar — Mailer’s first cousin and his lawyer. An admiring sketch of “Cy,” who preceded Mailer at Harvard. The foreword appeared first in the British (Deutsch) edition; the 1968 American first edition (Random House) carried only a jacket blurb drawn from its first sentence: “The book in your hand is a quiet and essentially modest account of a legal revolution.” Rpt: as the Introduction to the Bantam softcover (September); 72.7, 82.19.

First published: 1969-09
Form: essay
Lennon & Lennon: 69.82
Cite as: /works/1969-09-foreword-to-the-end-of-obscenity
Last updated: 2026-05-30