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Norman Mailer: Works and Days A digital bio-bibliography

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