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D.H. Lawrence: The Rainbow (Unabridged)

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D.H. Lawrence: The Rainbow (Unabridged)

D.H. Lawrence: The Rainbow (Unabridged)

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D.H. Lawrence's controversial classic, The Rainbow, follows the lives and loves of three generations of the Brangwen family, between 1840 and 1905. Their tempestuous relationships are played out against a backdrop of change as they witness the arrival of industrialisation − the only constant being their unending attempts to grasp a higher form of existence, symbolised by the persistent, unifying motif of the 'rainbow'. Lawrence's fourth novel, and the prequel to Women in Love, is an invigorating, absorbing tale about the undying determination of the human soul.

  • Release date: 30th Oct 2015
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Catalogue number: NA0192
  • Length: 20 hours 18 minutes

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David Herbert Richards Lawrence: The Rainbow (Unabridged)
Work length20:18:17
The Rainbow
Track length8:51
The curate was poor enough…
Track length9:17
There were four sons and two daughters.
Track length8:37
He had an instinct for mathematics…
Track length9:41
He did not know there was any difference in him…
Track length8:29
He saw how the foreigner treated the women…
Track length8:10
He went home talking to himself and to the moon…
Track length7:46
Tilly blushed and drew her neck in…
Track length8:22
'Who was that person?' his sister Effie asked.
Track length8:46
And whenever her eyes…
Track length8:12
He was a long time resolving definitely to ask her…
Track length7:19
The story came to an end…
Track length7:02
'There is the child,' she said…
Track length8:14
Chapter 2
Track length7:25
Very strange was the constant glitter of the sea…
Track length6:50
She was aware of people who passed around her…
Track length8:04
Behind her, there was so much unknown to him.
Track length7:22
'When they brought the railway across…'
Track length7:36
Cold, he called her, selfish…
Track length9:22
During the day…
Track length8:17
She came and was shaken into her coat…
Track length8:36
He lifted his cup to his lips…
Track length9:22
His voice was queer and distant and calm.
Track length8:35
Chapter 3
Track length7:34
Anna did not care much for other children.
Track length7:44
At first she would only glower or hiss…
Track length7:39
The evening came on, he played with Anna…
Track length7:12
For some moments he did not move.
Track length7:10
Chapter 4
Track length5:34
And at this period she was absorbed…
Track length8:33
They were a curious family…
Track length8:36
She was, however, only eighteen…
Track length8:49
She was curiously elated.
Track length8:47
Without knowing it, Anna was wanting him…
Track length8:33
They went on in this way for some time…
Track length9:02
She waited for him like the glow of light…
Track length8:21
'Anna,' he said, in wonder…
Track length8:01
She crouched on the hearthrug with her arms…
Track length8:41
Tom Brangwen was now…
Track length3:10
Chapter 5
Track length8:32
In the cottage big fires were burning…
Track length8:15
Tom Brangwen's mood of inspiration…
Track length8:09
Chapter 6
Track length8:18
'Somebody has been and found the door locked,'…
Track length8:14
She was less hampered than he…
Track length7:49
Suddenly she dried her tears.
Track length7:53
When they came to themselves, the night…
Track length8:07
She had always liked the little red and yellow…
Track length8:09
Then immediately she began to retaliate on him.
Track length8:26
When he came in at the door…
Track length8:35
He did not alter…
Track length8:04
'Whether it turned into wine or whether it didn't…'
Track length8:17
'Remember, child,' said her mother…
Track length8:33
He had various folios of reproductions…
Track length8:32
She sat in pride and curious pleasure.
Track length8:15
All the blood in his body went black and powerful…
Track length8:37
Then came the night when she said…
Track length9:11
When she was well again…
Track length5:19
'There, now they're gone.'
Track length5:16
Chapter 7
Track length7:40
Anna realized how different her own life…
Track length8:30
The cathedral roused her too.
Track length7:49
He listened to the thrushes in the garden…
Track length7:44
During the day, at his work in the office…
Track length3:40
Chapter 8
Track length8:02
When she was a little older…
Track length8:23
Again she was transported…
Track length7:57
Her father was the dawn…
Track length8:18
She never felt sorry…
Track length9:38
Again she half turned her face to him…
Track length9:34
He sheltered her, and soothed her…
Track length9:38
He was quite ousted from himself…
Track length9:41
Chapter 9
Track length9:31
His mother was in bed.
Track length9:33
'Go upstairs,' he said.
Track length9:26
The good-looking, still face…
Track length9:43
'Why do you have two wedding-rings…?'
Track length6:09
She had let him go on alone.
Track length7:06
Chapter 10
Track length8:35
Going to school by train…
Track length8:48
But she must move out of the intricately woven…
Track length7:55
Even at its stormiest, Sunday was a blessed day.
Track length8:32
Against all this, the Brangwens stood at bay.
Track length9:10
Ursula, accustomed to these pictures…
Track length9:21
Chapter 11
Track length6:17
'I hate the Wherrys, and I wish they were dead.'
Track length6:09
She hated herself…
Track length8:32
He seemed simply acquiescent…
Track length8:35
Ursula sat amused, but waiting.
Track length8:19
Ursula quivered and wondered.
Track length8:29
'I meant to show you my little wood-carving,'…
Track length8:02
Her hand tightened on his with a new…
Track length8:35
As the wedding-party returned home…
Track length8:12
'Good evening,' he called…
Track length8:52
There was a moment of confusion…
Track length9:03
She was not there.
Track length8:03
She took him in the kiss…
Track length7:53
The service and the singing in church…
Track length8:06
Could she with her hands fight the face…
Track length8:00
'Don't leave me – come back to me,' she said.
Track length8:00
Chapter 12
Track length7:29
The state of bliss, when Miss Inger was present…
Track length7:46
The electric suspense continued…
Track length7:30
She did not see how lambs could love.
Track length7:46
In the middle of the town was a large, open…
Track length7:07
The servant came in to ask…
Track length5:32
His real mistress was the machine…
Track length5:39
Chapter 13
Track length9:00
Ursula watched the newspapers, vaguely…
Track length9:14
There was silence in the workshop.
Track length9:32
It was very difficult for Brangwen…
Track length9:33
The Monday morning came.
Track length9:21
'Jim Richards,' called Miss Harby…
Track length8:50
A sharp whistle was heard…
Track length9:24
Mr. Brunt was crouching at the small stove…
Track length8:52
Ursula felt her heart faint inside her.
Track length9:44
At that moment Mr. Harby was passing.
Track length9:13
The trouble went on and on, day after day.
Track length9:40
So that, pale, shut, at last distant…
Track length9:20
And there she sat, and there he sat…
Track length9:42
'If you settle Clarke and Letts in the same way…'
Track length9:46
Ursula shrank from the brutality and the scandal.
Track length10:09
These days she was happy in her soul…
Track length8:04
Chapter 14
Track length8:13
He gave the same brief, neighing little laugh…
Track length8:28
And she gave herself to all that she loved…
Track length8:36
In the teachers' room the teachers…
Track length8:20
Chapter 15
Track length8:56
Then came the lovely, peaceful afternoons…
Track length8:24
For inside, inside the college…
Track length8:17
It was a little while before Easter…
Track length7:46
Ursula sat abstracted over her microscope…
Track length7:50
She became proud and erect, like a flower…
Track length7:45
They stood enjoying the unmitigated kiss…
Track length7:41
She took him home…
Track length8:15
'You've got a museau, not a face,' he said.
Track length7:46
Her soul began to run by itself.
Track length7:48
She had to hurry through her dressing…
Track length8:02
And at such moments, when he was mad…
Track length7:54
'It is so beautiful,' she said…
Track length8:52
The dusk began to fall.
Track length8:21
They lay rather late…
Track length9:22
She did not like it.
Track length8:59
'No, here,' she said…
Track length8:11
Chapter 16
Track length7:58
Yet she hurried to the wood for shelter.
Track length7:57
Then suddenly, in a flame of agony…
Track length8:17
And again, to her feverish brain…
Track length8:24
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