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The Lost Girl by D. H. Lawrence ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
Classic Audiobook Collection
01/03/23
•897m
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The Lost Girl by D. H. Lawrence audiobook.
Genre: drama
'There is no mistake about it, Alvina was a lost girl. She was cut off from everything she belonged to.'
In this most under-valued of his novels, Lawrence once again presents us with a young woman hemmed in by her middle-class upbringing and (like Ursula Brangwen in The Rainbow) longing for escape. Alvina Houghton's plight, however, is given a rather comic and even picaresque treatment. Losing first her mother, a perpetual invalid, and later her cross-dressing father, a woefully ineffectual small-scale entrepreneur, Alvina feels doomed to merge with the tribe of eternal spinsters who surround her in the dreary mining community of Woodhouse.
Into this drab environment enter the Natcha-Kee-Tawara: a polyglot, poly-amorous troupe of travelling players united, on- and off-stage, in a fantasy of Native American nomadism. Enter Ciccio, the surly dark-eyed horseman. The Italian's potent and threatening physicality overwhelms Alvina and soon will propel her into - what? Perdition, or the paradoxical freedom of a girl who 'like(s) being lost'?
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:53:15) Chapter 02
(01:14:15) Chapter 03
(01:46:55) Chapter 04
(02:23:57) Chapter 05
(03:00:34) Chapter 06
(03:34:42) Chapter 07
(04:15:10) Chapter 08
(04:55:40) Chapter 09
(05:38:01) Chapter 10
(06:20:47) Chapter 11
(06:55:21) Chapter 12
(07:24:26) Chapter 13
(08:15:55) Chapter 14
(09:07:40) Chapter 15
(09:48:44) Chapter 16
(10:30:30) Chapter 17
(11:10:27) Chapter 18
(11:44:23) Chapter 19
(12:11:43) Chapter 20
(12:35:53) Chapter 21
(13:33:15) Chapter 22
(13:56:36) Chapter 23
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Sea and Sardinia by D. H. Lawrence ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
January 3, 2023
•545m
Sea and Sardinia by D. H. Lawrence audiobook.
Genre: biography
In Sea and Sardinia, D. H. Lawrence turns a simple winter trip into a sharp, restless travel memoir full of landscape, conversation, and cultural friction. Leaving the chill and routines of mainland Italy, Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, set off by train and ship toward Sardinia, an island that feels both near and startlingly separate. As they navigate delays, cramped compartments, and the small dramas of fellow passengers, Lawrence watches everything with a poet's eye and a skeptic's impatience: the shifting sea, the hard outlines of coastal towns, the rhythms of local life, and the uneasy relationship between the island and the larger nation that claims it. In villages and cities alike, he tests his own assumptions about modernity, tradition, and the meaning of freedom, often finding beauty where he least expects it and irritation where others might see romance. By turns comic, lyrical, and biting, the book becomes less a guidebook than a portrait of travel as confrontation - with place, with politics, and with the traveler himself.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:29:10) Chapter 02
(00:54:16) Chapter 03
(01:37:42) Chapter 04
(02:21:29) Chapter 05
(03:05:03) Chapter 06
(03:46:12) Chapter 07
(04:31:16) Chapter 08
(05:13:05) Chapter 09
(05:50:27) Chapter 10
(06:26:18) Chapter 11
(07:07:48) Chapter 12
(07:43:16) Chapter 13
(08:12:23) Chapter 14
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The Prussian Officer and Other Stories by D. H. Lawrence audiobook.
Genre: drama
D. H. Lawrence's The Prussian Officer and Other Stories gathers a sharp, unsettling set of early tales in which ordinary lives are pressed to the edge by authority, desire, shame, and the body itself. In the title story, an aging Prussian captain, rigid with discipline and pride, drives his young orderly through relentless marches and humiliations, until the closed world of military hierarchy becomes a pressure chamber of obsession and fear. Around it, Lawrence turns his gaze to miners, clerks, lovers, and families in England and on the Continent, tracing how social class, gender expectations, and unspoken longings shape every gesture. Whether in a cramped home where tenderness curdles into resentment, a relationship tested by jealousy and dependency, or a community that polices what it cannot name, Lawrence writes with intense psychological immediacy and physical detail. These stories do not offer easy comfort; they expose the costs of repression and the dangerous intimacy between cruelty and need. Unflinching and vividly human, the collection is a portrait of people struggling for dignity and connection under forces they barely understand.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:25:46) Chapter 02
(00:44:06) Chapter 03
(00:55:34) Chapter 04
(01:19:06) Chapter 05
(01:40:57) Chapter 06
(01:59:26) Chapter 07
(02:15:41) Chapter 08
(02:35:33) Chapter 09
(02:52:04) Chapter 10
(03:10:52) Chapter 11
(03:34:31) Chapter 12
(03:56:03) Chapter 13
(04:15:17) Chapter 14
(04:29:14) Chapter 15
(04:46:31) Chapter 16
(05:13:03) Chapter 17
(05:34:09) Chapter 18
(06:05:44) Chapter 19
(06:18:46) Chapter 20
(06:31:44) Chapter 21
(06:51:50) Chapter 22
(07:07:20) Chapter 23
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