EPISODE · Jan 3, 2023 · 14H 56M
The Lost Girl by D. H. Lawrence ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
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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'? For ad-free listening try our premium subscription 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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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'? For ad-free listening try our premium subscription 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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