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The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
Classic Audiobook Collection
01/04/23
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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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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 Trespasser by D. H. Lawrence ~ Full Audiobook [tragedy]
January 4, 2023
•654m
The Trespasser by D. H. Lawrence audiobook.
Genre: tragedy
Brief Encounter meets Tristan und Isolde - on the Isle of Wight, under a vast sky florid with stars. The consequence is tragic indeed for one of the parties, Siegmund, when he sacrifices family life for a few days’ transcendent rapture. His lover, the self-contained Helena, is strong enough to bear a return to the scruffy suburbs. Redemption of a kind is granted to the deserted wife, Beatrice. But between these robust Lawrentian women Siegmund is cancelled out. His love-death is no cosmic swoon but a sordid exit in an unkempt box-room.
In this very British romance, there is no earthly escape from outworn attachments and life’s deadening routine...
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:21:41) Chapter 02
(00:47:43) Chapter 03
(01:13:47) Chapter 04
(01:23:46) Chapter 05
(01:43:39) Chapter 06
(02:13:12) Chapter 07
(02:30:40) Chapter 08
(02:50:40) Chapter 09
(02:58:31) Chapter 10
(03:07:20) Chapter 11
(03:33:09) Chapter 12
(03:51:40) Chapter 13
(04:08:41) Chapter 14
(04:34:38) Chapter 15
(05:00:27) Chapter 16
(05:17:45) Chapter 17
(05:40:26) Chapter 18
(05:45:49) Chapter 19
(06:18:41) Chapter 20
(06:31:30) Chapter 21
(07:11:13) Chapter 22
(07:30:02) Chapter 23
(07:58:22) Chapter 24
(08:10:17) Chapter 25
(08:28:17) Chapter 26
(08:45:05) Chapter 27
(09:16:33) Chapter 28
(09:29:10) Chapter 29
(09:57:15) Chapter 30
(10:21:14) Chapter 31
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