The Lost Girl by D. H. Lawrence ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

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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