The Lost Girl: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Lost Girl, credited to D. H. Lawrence, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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

LibriVox recording of The Lost Girl by D. H. Lawrence. Read in English 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'? Summary by Martin Geeson

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Lost Girl
• Author credits: D. H. Lawrence
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 14:43:03

Catalogue topics

• classic literature
• family saga
• historical saga
• sexual awakening
• 19th century novel

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter I - THE DECLINE OF MANCHESTER HOUSE — 53:08
2. 02 - Chapter II - THE RISE OF ALVINA HOUGHTON — 20:58
3. 03 - Chapter III - THE MATERNITY NURSE — 32:36
4. 04 - Chapter IV - TWO WOMEN DIE — 36:58
5. 05 - Chapter V (Part 1) - THE BEAU — 36:32
6. 06 - Chapter V (Part 2) - THE BEAU — 34:03
7. 07 - Chapter VI (Part 1) - HOUGHTON'S LAST ENDEAVOUR — 40:22
8. 08 - Chapter VI (Part 2) - HOUGHTON'S LAST ENDEAVOUR — 40:24
9. 09 - Chapter VII (Part 1) - NATCHA-KEE-TAWARA — 42:15
10. 10 - Chapter VII (Part 2) - NATCHA-KEE-TAWARA — 42:40
11. 11 - Chapter VIII (Part 1) - CICCIO — 34:30
12. 12 - Chapter VIII (Part 2) - CICCIO — 29:02
13. 13 - Chapter IX (Part 1) - ALVINA BECOMES ALLAYE — 51:23
14. 14 - Chapter IX (Part 2) - ALVINA BECOMES ALLAYE — 51:38
15. 15 - Chapter X - (Part 1) - THE FALL OF MANCHESTER HOUSE — 40:59
16. 16 - Chapter X - (Part 2) - THE FALL OF MANCHESTER HOUSE — 41:41
17. 17 - Chapter XI (Part 1) - HONOURABLE ENGAGEMENT — 39:52
18. 18 - Chapter XI (Part 2) - HONOURABLE ENGAGEMENT — 33:52
19. 19 - Chapter XII - ALLAYE ALSO IS ENGAGED — 27:16
20. 20 - Chapter XIII - THE WEDDED WIFE — 24:07
21. 21 - Chapter XIV - THE JOURNEY ACROSS — 57:15
22. 22 - Chapter XV - THE PLACE CALLED CALIFANO — 23:18
23. 23 - Chapter XVI - SUSPENSE — 48:22

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