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The Prussian Officer and Other Stories by D. H. Lawrence ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
Classic Audiobook Collection
01/04/23
•466m
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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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The Lost Girl by D. H. Lawrence ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
January 3, 2023
•897m
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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The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
January 4, 2023
•1199m
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence audiobook.
Genre: drama
Set in the English Midlands from the late 1800s into the early 20th century, The Rainbow follows the Brangwen family across generations as they struggle to reconcile the solidity of rural life with a restless hunger for something beyond it. At Marsh Farm, Tom Brangwen is drawn into a marriage that reshapes his sense of belonging and awakens a fierce emotional and physical intensity. As the family grows, the focus shifts to the women who inherit that same desire for self-definition, especially Ursula Brangwen, whose sharp intelligence and independence push her beyond the boundaries of home, church, and convention. Through schooling, work, love affairs, and clashes of will, Ursula searches for a life that feels fully her own, even as society pressures her toward dutiful roles and respectable choices. Lawrence paints the landscape, the body, and the psyche with equal force, exploring how intimacy can both liberate and wound, and how personal awakening can threaten the structures that claim to keep people safe. Rich, frank, and emotionally exacting, The Rainbow is a sweeping portrait of longing, growth, and the cost of becoming oneself.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 1
(00:35:04) Chapter 2
(01:05:04) Chapter 3
(01:49:11) Chapter 4
(02:30:18) Chapter 5
(03:10:24) Chapter 03
(03:48:22) Chapter 6
(04:28:28) Chapter 7
(05:12:57) Chapter 05
(05:37:07) Chapter 8
(06:08:33) Chapter 9
(06:41:46) Chapter 10
(07:12:07) Chapter 11
(07:45:12) Chapter 07
(08:21:03) Chapter 12
(08:54:31) Chapter 13
(09:30:18) Chapter 14
(09:56:13) Chapter 15
(10:22:01) Chapter 16
(10:47:27) Chapter 17
(11:13:47) Chapter 18
(11:42:07) Chapter 19
(12:09:18) Chapter 20
(12:43:24) Chapter 21
(13:14:56) Chapter 12
(14:02:50) Chapter 22
(14:39:45) Chapter 23
(15:12:22) Chapter 24
(15:50:11) Chapter 25
(16:25:56) Chapter 14
(17:00:24) Chapter 26
(17:33:17) Chapter 27
(18:05:04) Chapter 28
(18:37:09) Chapter 29
(19:19:21) Chapter 16
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