The White Peacock by D. H. Lawrence ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

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01/04/23

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782m

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The White Peacock by D. H. Lawrence audiobook.

Genre: drama

Set in the English countryside at the turn of the 20th century, The White Peacock follows two young friends, Cyril Beardsall and George Saxton, as they drift from boyhood ease into the complicated moral weather of adulthood. Cyril, sensitive and observant, records the rhythms of farms, lanes, and village gatherings with a poet's eye, but his quiet perspective is tested when he becomes entangled in the desires and disappointments of the people closest to him. At the center is Lettie, spirited and ambitious, pulled between the security of respectability and the magnetic unpredictability of others who promise a different kind of life. As courtship, class expectations, and financial pressures tighten their grip, friendship frays and private longings spill into public consequence. D. H. Lawrence's debut novel is both a love story and a portrait of a changing rural world, where beauty and brutality sit side by side and where the characters must confront what they truly want - and what it may cost them. Lyrical, earthy, and psychologically sharp, it explores passion, jealousy, and the struggle to find meaning in ordinary lives.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:22:32) Chapter 02

(00:44:20) Chapter 03

(01:10:51) Chapter 04

(01:40:29) Chapter 05

(02:11:12) Chapter 06

(02:52:50) Chapter 07

(03:34:17) Chapter 08

(04:01:15) Chapter 09

(04:47:01) Chapter 10

(05:37:39) Chapter 11

(06:12:20) Chapter 12

(06:52:51) Chapter 13

(07:23:57) Chapter 14

(07:40:36) Chapter 15

(07:56:53) Chapter 16

(08:29:04) Chapter 17

(08:48:21) Chapter 18

(09:10:35) Chapter 19

(09:41:58) Chapter 20

(10:00:23) Chapter 21

(10:27:22) Chapter 22

(10:52:29) Chapter 23

(11:20:46) Chapter 24

(11:57:44) Chapter 25

(12:18:46) Chapter 26

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The Trespasser by D. H. Lawrence ~ Full Audiobook [tragedy]

January 4, 2023

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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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Twilight in Italy by D. H. Lawrence ~ Full Audiobook [history]

January 5, 2023

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345m

Twilight in Italy by D. H. Lawrence audiobook.

Genre: history

In Twilight in Italy, D. H. Lawrence turns travel into a fiercely attentive way of seeing. Moving through northern Italian lakes and hill towns, he writes as an outsider who is both enchanted and unsettled, recording the physical textures of place - stone streets, cold mountain air, sudden gardens - and the human drama that gathers in kitchens, churches, and crowded public squares. Along the way he meets innkeepers, laborers, priests, and fellow travelers, and he watches festivals, processions, and everyday work with the same sharp intensity he brings to landscape. What begins as a journey becomes a search for something harder to name: an Italy not reduced to postcard beauty, where ancient customs still press against modern pressures, poverty, tourism, and social change. Lawrence is drawn to moments of vitality and menace alike, asking what people sacrifice to survive, what they protect in tradition, and what is lost when a culture starts performing itself for visitors. The book unfolds as a series of vivid episodes, blending observation, argument, and lyrical description into a portrait of a country at the edge of transformation - and of a restless mind testing itself against it.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:28:12) Chapter 02

(00:56:58) Chapter 03

(01:46:49) Chapter 04

(02:44:19) Chapter 05

(03:16:34) Chapter 06

(03:30:45) Chapter 07

(03:45:44) Chapter 08

(04:05:16) Chapter 09

(04:44:42) Chapter 10