Author(s): Lawrence, D.H.
Reader(s): Peake, Maxine
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Period: 20th Century
Catalogue No: NA0041
Barcode: 9781843794790
Release Date: 01/2011

LAWRENCE, D.H.: Lady Chatterley's Lover (Abridged)

Lady Chatterley’s husband returns from the War paralysed from the waist down. Frustrated by his attitudes as much as his disability, she begins a love-affair with the gamekeeper, Mellors. She realises that to be fully alive she must live the life of the body as well as the mind, but in doing so she angers the conventions of her day.

Banned for over 30 years for the explicit nature of its language and descriptions of sex, Lady Chatterley’s Lover also exposes the dehumanisation of the mechanical age, and underlines the profound power of tenderness.

Tracklist

Disc 1
Lawrence, D.H. - Author
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
1Ours is essentially a tragic age…06:16
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
2In 1916 Herbert Chatterley was killed…07:02
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
3Connie and Clifford had now been nearly two years at Wragby…06:19
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
4Breakfast was served in the bedrooms…04:46
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
5'I don't think I can stand that young man…'05:23
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
6Clifford was making strides into fame, and even money.06:23
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
7On a frosty morning with a little February sun…05:09
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
8She was watching a brown spaniel that had run out…04:47
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
9Michaelis had seized upon Clifford as the central figure…06:14
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
10On one of her bad days she went out alone to walk in the wood…07:40
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
11It had rained as usual and the paths were too sodden…05:43
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
12When Connie went up to her bedroom…04:24
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
13Clifford was yellow at the gills with anger…04:21
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
14So next day Clifford suggested Mrs. Bolton…04:17
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
Disc 2
1It was a blowy day soon after Hilda had gone…05:40
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
2Connie came to herself with a sudden uneasiness…07:04
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
3Mrs. Bolton was admirable in many ways.05:26
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
4Under Mrs. Bolton's influence…05:56
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
5But this astute and practical man was almost an idiot…05:20
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
6One evening, guests or no guests…04:54
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
7With a queer obedience, she lay down on the blanket.06:31
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
8She went to the wood the next day.07:11
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
9She turned and looked at him.06:34
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
10And again the dread of the night came on him.04:16
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
11He could not rest nor even go to bed.03:58
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
12Connie was sorting out one of the Wragby lumber rooms.07:01
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
13It was a sunny day and Connie was working in the garden.07:43
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
Disc 3
1Connie went to the wood directly after lunch.04:44
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
2She set the two cups on the table…05:14
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
3Now he really looked at her, intense and searching.04:52
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
4She slipped out of the side door, and took her way…07:19
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
5Ah, too lovely, too lovely!05:44
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
6On Sunday Clifford wanted to go into the wood…03:55
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
7She went upstairs as soon as possible…05:57
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
8'I'll tell you,' he said.05:45
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
9He got up, and put her shoes to dry…07:54
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
10Then he woke up and looked at the light.07:44
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
11He heard the distant hooters of Stacks Gate for seven o'clock.07:16
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
12There fell a complete silence.04:36
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
13The curious gulf of silence between them!04:22
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
14Connie arrived home to an ordeal of cross-questioning.03:44
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
Disc 4
1And the day came round for Hilda to arrive.06:33
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
2There was an early cup of tea in the hall…04:28
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
3He unlocked the door and preceded them into the warm…04:31
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
4It was a night of sensual passion…07:07
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
5She and Hilda stayed in a little hotel off Pall Mall…05:53
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
6She had been at Venice a fortnight…06:01
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
7A few days later came a letter from Clifford.06:17
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
8She had to make up her mind what to do.03:18
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
9She found a letter from Mellors.06:01
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
10Connie confided in her father.06:19
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
11'Dear Clifford, I am afraid what you foresaw has happened.'06:44
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
12His behaviour with regard to Connie was curious.07:52
Peake, Maxine (Reader)
13So Connie left Wragby once more…02:33
Peake, Maxine (Reader)

Total Playing Time: 05:09:01