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Collected Works of D. H. Lawrence Lot of 18 Audiobooks in 18 MP3 Audio CDs

D. H. Lawrence

(1885 - 1930)

David Herbert Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D. H. Lawrence.

Aaron's Rod

Running Time:11:40:27 in 1 MP3 Audio CD

Read in English by Bill Boerst and K Hand

Flutist Aaron Sisson is caught up in the aftermath of WWI. A lost soul, he attempts to find himself in the comfort of bar-room talk and alcohol and a woman. Moving on, he spends time with a mining executive's relatives. But he finds the family a stuffy middle-class lot, bored with each other and themselves. He leaves his wife and children and strikes out for the open road. During a playing engagement at an opera performance, he reunites with the mining executive's family. Talk is of love and war, none of it very satisfying to anyone. At dinner with one of the women, Aaron reveals that he is indifferent to most things in life and just wants to be left alone. So it goes with this lost soul among lost souls. One wonders how he will ever find himself or happiness.

Amores: Poems

Running Time:01:40:54 in 1 MP3 Audio CD

Read by Multiple Readers

Amores is one of D. H. Lawrence's earliest works of poetry, published in 1916, was a precursor to his delving in free verse in later collections. The poems in this collection are characterized by haunting and dark themes, sensuousness and his controversial dealing with sexual topics.

1 - Tease 2 - The Wild Common 3 - Study 4 - Discord in Childhood 5 - Virgin Youth 6 - Monologue of a Mother 7 - In a Boat 8 - Week-night Service 9 - Irony 10 - Dreams Old 11 - Dreams Nascent 12 - A Winter's Tale 13 - Epilogue 14 - A Baby Running Barefoot 15 - Discipline 16 - Scent of Irises 17 - The Prophet 18 - Last Words to Miriam 19 - Mystery 20 - Patience 21 - Ballad of Another Ophelia 22 - Restlessness 23 - A Baby Asleep After Pain 24 - Anxiety 25 - The Punisher 26 - The End 27 - The Bride 28 - The Virgin Mother 29 - At the Window 30 - Drunk

31 - Sorrow 32 - Dolor of Autumn 33 - The Inheritance 34 - Silence 35 - Listening 36 - Brooding Grief 37 - Lotus Hurt by the Cold 38 - Malade 39 - Liaison 40 - Troth with the Dead 41 - Dissolute 42 - Submergence 43 - The Enkindled Spring 44 - Reproach 45 - The Hands of the Betrothed 46 - Excursion 47 - Perfidy 48 - A Spiritual Woman 49 - Mating 50 - A Love Song 51 - Brother and Sister 52 - After Many Days 53 - Blue 54 - Snap-Dragon 55 - A Passing Bell 56 - In Trouble and Shame 57 - Elegy 58 - Grey Evening 59 - Firelight and Nightfall 60 - The Mystic Blue

Bay: A Book of Poems

Running Time:00:31:22 in 1 MP3 Audio CD

Read by Bruce Kachuk

The superb skill and dexterity of D.H. Lawrence, a writer who profoundly influenced the literature of the twentieth century, is very evident in this collection of poems conceived during the years of The Great War. Lawrence, living a semi-nomadic lifestyle in England throughout these years, seized the opportunity to write of events and their effects from an objective but by no means dispassionate perspective.

Indeed the passion of Lawrence while attempting to understand the collective motivation of mankind in the name of wartime vengeance is very evident throughout this work, manifesting itself in poems of deep analytical insight, clarity of thought and Lawrence's characteristic rage against the dehumanization of his fellow man - exhibited here by the predominance of the war machine and profusely mirrored by its regimentation, united malevolence and resulting horrors of conflict.

In addition, Lawrence's unsurpassed poetic skill vividly portrays the wartime vulnerability of the British homeland as "a flat red lily with a million petals", unfolding and meeting its doom as "a dark bird falls from the sun"; marching soldiers are depicted by Lawrence as, "advancing as water towards a weir"; while the "coiled, convulsive throes of this marching" is described as adopting a universality typical of soldiers everywhere, advancing while never knowing their eventual fate nor where or when it will be met.

These poems, these vignettes of a nation engulfed in war, these masterworks of color on a canvas of bewilderment form an important contribution to the literature of World War I and exhibit an essential facet of D.H. Lawrence the man - the brilliant wordsmith whose portrayal of the human condition is unsurpassed in its honesty and candor.

1 - Guards! 2 - The Little Town at Evening 3 - Last Hours 4 - Town 5 - After the Opera 6 - Going Back 7 - On the March 8 - Bombardment 9 - Winter-Lull

10 - The Attack 11 - Obsequial Ode 12 - Shades 13 - Bread upon the Waters 14 - Ruination 15 - Rondeau of a Conscientious Objector 16 - Tommies in the Train 17 - War-Baby 18 - Nostalgia

England, My England

Running Time:08:07:28 in 1 MP3 Audio CD

Read by Anthony Ogus

A book of ten short stories, written with Lawrence's typical sensibility to and awareness of social mores, set around the period of the First World War.

1 - England part 1 2 - England part 2 3 - England part 3 4 - Tickets Please 5 - Blind Man pt 1 6 - Blind Man pt 2 7 - Monkey Nuts 8 - Wintry Peacock 9 - You Touched Me pt1

10 - You Touched Me pt2 11 - Samson & Delilah pt1 12 - Samson & Delilah pt2 13 - Primrose Path pt 1 14 - Primrose Path pt 2 15 - Horsedealer's Daughter pt1 16 - Horsedealer's Daughter pt2 17 - Fanny and Annie

Kangaroo

Running Time:16:43:27 in 1 MP3 Audio CD

Read by Multiple Readers

"Kangaroo" is the nickname of a character in this novel, Benjamin Cooley, who was a charismatic leader in the fascist movement of ex-soldiers who fought in the Australian army in WWII. The story's main character is an international journalist, Richard Lovat Somers who, with his wife, comes to rent a house next door to Jack Calcott and his wife who are natural-born Australians through-and-through. Jack is in league with Kangaroo and tries to persuade Lovat to join their political movement conflicting with the Socialist political faction in the country. Throughout this book, there is an undercurrent of vaguely defined "Generalized Love" which borders closely on homosexuality between the otherwise testosterone-saturated Australian men. Action-wise: There are riots and gunfights; but there are also moments of great tenderness of the men for their wives. Both Jack and Lovat dearly want to become "leaders of men", but Lovat backs away when he is recruited to join in an espionage campaign against the Socialists. Another undercurrent which muddies the waters for Lovat is that he is a true British citizen and thus resented by the Australians.

Love Poems and Others

Running Time:01:20:05 in 1 MP3 Audio CD

Read by Multiple Readers

This is a collection of poems by DH Lawrence. Most of the poems concern love and neighboring emotions, but some poems also concern other themes.

1 - Wedding Morn 2 - Kisses in the Train 3 - Cruelty and Love 4 - Cherry Robbers 5 - Lilies in the Fire 6 - Coldness in Love 7 - End of another Home-Holiday 8 - Reminder 9 - Bei Hennef 10 - Lightning 11 - Song-Day in Autumn 12 - Aware 13 - A Pang of Reminiscence 14 - A White Blossom 15 - Red Moon-Rise

16 - Return 17 - The Appeal 18 - Repulsed 19 - Dream-Confused 20 - Corot 21 - Morning Work 22 - Transformations 23 - Renascence 24 - Dog-Tired 25 - Michael-Angelo 26 - Violets 27 - Whether or Not 28 - A Collier’s Wife 29 - The Drained Cup 30 - The Schoolmaster

Sea and Sardinia

Running Time:08:51:57 in 1 MP3 Audio CD

Read by Anthony Ogus

A travel book describing a journey taken by Lawrence and his wife Frieda (whom he refers to as the Queen Bee) by sea from Sicily to Sardinia and then in the interior of that island.

Sons and Lovers

Running Time:18:47:43 in 1 MP3 Audio CD

Read by Mark F. Smith

This intimate portrait of a coal-miner's family fastens on each member in turn: Walter Morel, the collier; Gertrude, his wife; and the children: William, Annie, Arthur, and Paul. When Mrs. Morel begins to be estranged from her husband because of his poor financial sense and his drinking habits, she comes to inhabit the lives of her children - most particularly, her sons. She is determined that they will grow to be something more than men that come home blackened with coal dust every day and roaring with drink every night. As each grows up and moves away, she must release him. But Paul, she holds; they have a bond that defies time and the attractions of young women.

Lawrence originally intended the book's title to be "Paul Morel" and it is on this son - and his lovers - that he spends the bulk of his tale. The strong mother can make a success of her son, but if he cannot learn to leave his mother's apron strings, will he really be a better man than his father?

The Lost Girl

Running Time:14:43:03 in 1 MP3 Audio CD

Read by Tony Foster

"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'?

The Prussian Officer

Running Time:7:31:39 in 1 MP3 Audio CD

Read by Cate Barratt

The collection of short stories - of which The Prussian Officer is one - was Lawrence’s first such book. A German officer and his orderly are the focus of the piece and, while socially the superior of his orderly, the officer demonstrates his is the distinctly baser character.

1 - The Prussian Officer 2 - The Thorn in the Flesh 3 - Daughters of the Vicar 4 - A Fragment of Stained Glass 5 - The Shades of Spring 6 - Second Best

7 - The Shadow in the Rose Garden 8 - Goose Fair 9 - The White Stocking 10 - A Sick Collier 11 - The Christening 12 - Odour of Chrysanthemums

The Rainbow

Running Time:19:51:19 in 1 MP3 Audio CD

Read by Debra Lynn

The Rainbow is a 1915 novel by British author D.H. Lawrence. It follows three generations of the Brangwen family, particularly focusing on the sexual dynamics of, and relations between, the characters.

The Trespasser

Running Time:10:40:35 in 1 MP3 Audio CD

Read by Martin Geeson

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.

The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd(Dramatic Reading)

Running Time:01:54:59 in 1 MP3 Audio CD

Mrs. Holroyd is married to a loutish miner, who drinks, apparently patronizes prostitutes, and apparently brutalizes her. When a gentlemanly neighbor makes romantic advances to her, she wishes her husband dead. - Summary by Michele Eaton

Cast List:

Stage Directions: Scarbo

Jack: Silverquill

Clara: Dtcastid

Blackmore: MrsHand

Mrs Holroyd: EltonTheSnowman

Holroyd: Alan Mapstone

Minnie: Shreyasethi

Grandmother: Availle

Manager: ToddHW

Rigley: alanmapstone

First Bearer: Salvationist

Laura: LaurenEmma3

Second Bearer: ChuckW

Tortoises

Running Time:00:27:59 in 1 MP3 Audio CD

Read by Amy Gramour; Eva Davis; Nemo

Tortoises is a collection of six poems by D.H. Lawrence inspired by his observation of tortoises going about their business, wild in the landscape of his home. They reveal something about tortoises, about the man watching them, and perhaps about the relationship of each with nature, where they dwell and develop through a lifetime, interconnected.

1 - Baby Tortoise

2 - Tortoise-Shell

3 - Tortoise Family Connections

4 - Lui Et Elle

5 - Tortoise Gallantry

6 - Tortoise Shout

Touch and Go(Dramatic Reading)

Running Time:02:42:43 in 1 MP3 Audio CD

A man is speaking to a group of colliers in a small mining village. They have decided that they have had enough of the way they are treated and decide to go on strike. A battle of wills ensues. Summary by Michele Eaton

Cast List

Narrator: Scarbo

Gerald: Andrew Gaunce

Voice 1: Kathi M. Walsheck

Mrs Barlow: Diane Castillo

Oliver Turton: KHand

Mr Barlow: Andrew James

Job Arthur: Alan Mapstone

Winifred: Shreya Sethi

Anabel: Jenn Broda

Willie Houghton: Wayne Cooke

Eva: Lily

William the Butler and Collier: David Purdy

Clerks and Voice: Zach Hoyt

Breffitt and Voice: Chuck Williamson

Voices: Michele Eaton

Twilight in Italy

Running Time:05:36:15 in 1 MP3 Audio CD

Read by Peter Tucker

This is one of the author's "travel books", recounting his walking journeys in and around the Lago di Garda in Northern Italy. Every turn prompts musings on the nature and character of the people he encounters and their relationship to the land which they inhabit. His insights, while sometimes condescending, show elements of Lawrence's analysis of the human condition, and his despair over the relentless erosion of a bucolic environment with the advance of modernism.

The White Peacock

Running Time:12:48:31 in 1 MP3 Audio CD

Read by Simon Evers

Lawrence’s first novel is set in Nethermere (his name for the real-life Eastwood in Nottinghamshire). The plot is narrated by Cyril Beardsall and focuses in particular on the relationship of his sister Lettie with two admirers, the more handsome and down to earth George and the more effete gentleman Leslie. She eventually marries Leslie although she is sexually attracted to George. George marries the conventional Meg and both marriages end in unhappiness.

The countryside of the English midlands is beautifully evoked and there is powerful description also of the impact of industrialisation on both town and country.

Women in Love

Running Time:25:19:21 in 1 MP3 Audio CD

Read by Ruth Golding

Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula. Gudrun Brangwen, an artist, pursues a destructive relationship with Gerald Crich, an industrialist. Lawrence contrasts this pair with the love that develops between Ursula and Rupert Birkin, an alienated intellectual who articulates many opinions associated with the author. The emotional relationships thus established are given further depth and tension by an unadmitted homoerotic attraction between Gerald and Rupert. The novel ranges over the whole of British society at the time of the First World War and eventually ends high up in the snows of the Swiss Alps.