Aaron's Rod: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Aaron's Rod, credited to D. H. Lawrence, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Aaron's Rod by D. H. Lawrence. Read in English by Bill Boerst; KHand 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. - Summary by Bill Boerst

Recording facts

• Recording title: Aaron's Rod
• Author credits: D. H. Lawrence
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 38
• Listed recording duration: 11:40:27

Catalogue topics

• WWI
• music
• WW1

Opening tracks: first 24 of 38

1. 01 - Chapter 1, Part A - The Blue Ball — 12:05
2. 02 - Chapter 1, Part B - The Blue Ball — 13:05
3. 03 - Chapter 2 - Royal Oak — 21:39
4. 04 - Chapter 3, Part A - The Lighted Tree — 13:31
5. 05 - Chapter 3, Part B - The Lighted Tree — 14:31
6. 06 - Chapter 4 - The Pillar of Salt — 15:12
7. 07 - Chapter 5 - At the Opera — 23:23
8. 08 - Chapter 6 - Talk — 18:05
9. 09 - Chapter 7 - The Dark Square Garden — 15:08
10. 10 - Chapter 8, Part A - A Punch in the Wind — 13:42
11. 11 - Chapter 8, Part B - A Punch in the Wind — 14:21
12. 12 - Chapter 9, Part A - Low-Water Mark — 17:59
13. 13 - Chapter 9, Part B - Low-Water Mark — 17:14
14. 14 - Chapter 10, Part A - The War Again — 24:17
15. 15 - Chapter 10, Part B - The War Again — 21:58
16. 16 - Chapter 11 - More Pillar of Salt — 17:23
17. 17 - Chapter 12, Part A - Novarra — 15:59
18. 18 - Chapter 12, Part B - Novarra — 16:39
19. 19 - Chapter 12, Part C - Novarra — 19:08
20. 20 - Chapter 13, Part A - Wie Es Ihnen Gefaellt — 28:44
21. 21 - Chapter 13, Part B - Wie Es Ihnen Gefaellt — 22:24
22. 22 - Chapter 13, Part C - Wie Es Ihnen Gefaellt — 25:47
23. 23 - Chapter 14, Part A - 20 Settembre — 22:44
24. 24 - Chapter 14, Part B - 20 Settembre — 21:05

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