Author(s): Lessing, Doris
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Period: 20th Century
Catalogue No: NAX15812
Barcode: 9789626341582
Release Date: 01/2010

LESSING, D.: Golden Notebook (The) (Unabridged)

Tracklist

Disc 1
Lessing, Doris - Author
Stevenson, Juliet (Reader)
1Free Women 1 – Anna meets her friend Molly in the summer…06:06
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2Anna, in the face of this unspoken but clear determination…06:28
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3There was a note of humorous, even childish pleading in this.07:57
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4Now Anna could not reply…05:19
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5Richard came into the room.06:24
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6Meanwhile Molly, talented in so many directions…06:12
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7Molly promptly went to the door, opened it, listened.05:32
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8Molly ignored Anna and attacked.07:13
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9Richard was on the point of exploding out of his chair…05:48
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10Richard made a movement as if to get up and go…04:46
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11Molly sighed, histrionically…05:48
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12There was another sound, like a cough…05:36
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13Tommy allowed them both a tolerant smile…06:20
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Disc 2
1For the first time Tommy showed a touch of humour.06:00
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2Anna closed her eyes a moment, smiling painfully.07:42
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3Anna held herself quiet, with effort.07:38
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4But at this Molly got up, and said quickly…06:05
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5'But I think I'll mention three of the comrades…'06:02
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6'And there's your friend de Silva.'05:39
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7They kissed, briskly.04:12
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8The Notebooks – The Black Notebook07:49
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9(Opposite this was written:)05:30
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10Yet I am incapable of writing the only kind of novel…06:44
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11When I think back to that time…06:46
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12For us, then…08:14
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Disc 3
1About then I met Willi Rodde and got involved with politics.05:58
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2But I don't want to write Willi's history…06:47
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3The most striking of the three…06:39
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4In this he was different from Jimmy McGrath…05:13
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5Ted Brown was the most original.06:58
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6The Gainsborough Hotel was really a boarding-house…06:09
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7Willi ran a cheap fifth-hand car.06:50
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8The main block of the hotel stood directly by the main road…08:16
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9We were all very tired.08:24
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10We did not return for a month.06:12
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11June spent most of her time on the verandah…06:04
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12Now it was Mrs. Boothby…05:13
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Disc 4
1George Hounslow, a roads man, lived a hundred miles…05:34
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2In parenthesis I must say that this is exactly what happened…05:30
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3At about midnight, the glare of a lorry's headlights…06:45
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4I've thought about that often since.06:23
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5George looked at Willi, waiting for him to protest.07:23
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6I remember George's long puzzled look at Willi.05:26
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7At last we managed to get Jimmy on his feet.08:03
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8We walked up to the big room through the hot sunlight…06:16
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9On this morning Stanley had stacked the top of the piano…07:54
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10Paul turned his head with his characteristic indolent charm…06:07
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11'Anna?' appealed George, looking at me.06:09
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12George looked at me again…07:14
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Disc 5
1He shut his eyes.07:33
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2It must have been about six or eight months…06:11
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3And then there was the affair of George's son.05:51
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4All this time we'd been making jokes…07:02
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5Next day bad temper prickled through the hotel.05:33
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6It was nearly midnight when Paul remarked…06:15
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7I left Willi in the bedroom and stood on the verandah.05:55
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8Paul left me and I went into the bedroom.05:49
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9The Red Notebook – The second notebook, the red one…03:32
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10The next day.05:11
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115th Feb., 195005:09
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123rd Jan., 195205:50
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13I see that I wrote yesterday, I would leave the Party.08:51
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Disc 6
1I went up to canvass, three afternoons.07:13
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2Jean Barker. Wife oF Minor Party official.03:39
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3The Yellow Notebook – The yellow notebook looked like…05:36
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4Julia's last remark had struck a familiar note.06:13
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5The idea for this novel had come to Ella…07:02
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6Here was Dr. West's house…07:06
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7Now the talk began again…06:05
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8Meanwhile she was restless to get away from him…05:26
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9It was time to go home.07:16
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10Paul was late…07:48
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11This was so personal, that it was her turn to glance…05:32
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12Later – and not so much later, he would say…06:46
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13They did not speak again until they reached the main road…03:45
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Disc 7
1From the feeling of the house she knew it was still empty.05:54
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2Being with Paul Tanner that night…07:15
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3That night Paul was humorous and very tender.07:39
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4The next evening they met full of defences on either side.04:12
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5Five years.06:44
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6The motif of Paul's attitude to his profession.06:56
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7The end of the affair.07:10
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8As for me, Anna, it was a remarkable fact…08:23
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9They ate, and he looked over at her and said…04:05
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10One day she went with him to his home.07:55
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11Later that evening he said, laughing…05:47
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12Ella had a dream which was unpleasant and disturbing.07:26
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Disc 8
1The Blue Notebook – The blue notebook began with a sentence…05:43
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29th October, 194606:37
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3Jan. 19th, 195006:50
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4Jan. 31st, 195007:42
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515th March, 195006:00
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69th June, 5106:02
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728th June, 5206:22
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8December 3rd, 5207:55
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99th April, 195406:22
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10Free Women 2 – Two visits, some telephone calls…06:56
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11He sat down, arranged himself neatly…06:35
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12Tommy lowered his head, sat frowning.05:49
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Disc 9
1Tommy said: 'After I went to my father's office…'05:40
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2This shock reached Anna's diaphragm…07:35
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3She said at last: 'I know what you've come here for.'06:25
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4Some time later, perhaps as long as an hour…06:03
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5Now he came and sat down opposite her…05:31
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6Marion, when she came in, smiled…06:05
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7'Why don't you go to bed?'07:09
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8The Notebooks – The black notebook continued empty…06:31
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9'Oh, my dear, you are so marvellous…'05:12
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10'Do you remember the excitement you talked about?'05:36
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11Letter from Mrs. Edwina Wright…07:54
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12'Anna, I liked your book so much.'08:59
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Disc 10
1Now we are suddenly both very angry.04:41
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2The Red Notebook – August 28th 195404:29
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3I dreamed marvellously.05:08
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4Here were pasted in some scribbled sheets…06:29
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5The talk became desultory…05:11
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6'I often wonder if I am getting the correct advice…'05:20
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7The Yellow Notebook continues – The Shadow of the Third05:26
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8Next morning she slept too long…06:02
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9His face, his full eyes, were momentarily immobilised…07:38
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10And now she made a decision.05:56
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11Near her a man was sitting, absorbed in magazines…08:44
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12Her son woke her two hours later…08:17
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13He had a bed-sitting room and a bath in an expensive hotel.05:32
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Disc 11
1She thought this one out slowly…07:00
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2Ella spent the following evening with him.08:23
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3The Blue Notebook continued – 15th September 195406:35
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4It must be about six o'clock.08:54
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5Now it is nearly eight o'clock...06:49
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6And now I must hurry.06:59
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7I ought really to be thinking over the coming encounter…05:48
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8When I get off the bus…06:41
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9Meanwhile Comrade Butte sits waiting.04:10
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10There is a startled silence…04:51
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11I read magazines and periodicals published in English…05:11
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12Before I start on the 'welfare work'…08:07
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Disc 12
1About eighteen months ago…06:42
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2For a year I have been answering these letters…05:47
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3I say 'Jack, when I leave, will there be anyone…'04:42
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4And now I see his face has put on a stubborn closed look…04:22
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5It is raining again, a small tedious drizzle.07:17
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6And now the cooking for Michael.03:51
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7I realise it is getting late.07:22
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8Free Women Three – Tommy adjusts himself to being blind…07:07
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9There never was a moment at which Tommy broke down.07:14
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10It was expressed by the single fact…06:41
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11A few days later Molly telephoned…07:16
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12Richard's lips actually trembled…05:32
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13Refusing to help him, not only out of dislike for him…05:36
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Disc 13
1Richard with an effort took himself to his desk…07:09
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2She opened her eyes, giddy and afraid…06:42
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3Anna reached the cleanliness of her own flat…07:44
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4Marion said: 'I'm sorry if I gave you a fright…'05:48
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5She sat staring, serious, ironical.07:08
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6'Do you remember that black leader…'05:27
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7Marion left, creeping downstairs…05:44
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8With which she went to the bathroom, to get ready for bed.08:59
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9That was the dream she woke with in the morning…05:03
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10The Notebooks – The black notebook now fulfilled…05:48
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1112th November05:59
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12In every direction, all around us, were the insects, coupling.07:19
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Disc 14
1Suddenly Paul sprang over and trod deliberately…06:36
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2We prepared for a lazy interval.07:12
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3There was again an intense silence.06:41
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4Time passed. We smoked. We waited.07:28
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5Maryrose closed her eyes again.05:50
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6'Look,' said Jimmy.06:17
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7The right side of the black notebook, under the heading…05:28
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8Came to know the young American writer James Schaffer.08:23
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9Easter Sunday03:03
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10Blood on the Banana Leaves08:48
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11Here was pinned to the page a review…05:35
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12The Red Notebook continued – 13th November 195508:07
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Disc 15
1The Yellow Notebook continued – The Shadow of the Third06:51
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2A few weeks later, Ella sees Julia, tells her…07:41
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3Next day she telephones Julia…08:22
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4That evening Ella goes to Julia's house…05:56
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5Ella finds this story inside herself…03:53
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6About this time Ella pays a visit to her father.08:21
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7Ella, alone in her room, looks into her private pool…06:47
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8For something like eighteen months, the blue notebook…06:51
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9I remember how she sat opposite me…06:47
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10'What do you want me to say then?'05:47
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11At this point, another thick black line across the page.07:05
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12Telling Mother Sugar of this dream…04:12
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Disc 16
1What is happening is something new in my life.07:13
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2Another heavy black line.06:06
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3Within a week of my having gone to bed with Nelson…06:42
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4Well, from the moment Nelson came in…06:01
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5It was quite late, as I've said, about midnight…06:44
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6But now, suddenly, the tiny blonde woman…07:44
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7He went off, shouting and screaming at me – at women.06:08
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8I suddenly had a telephone call from him…06:16
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9Later on in the evening he told me the following story.04:39
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10In the morning I gave him breakfast.06:50
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11Free Women 4 – Anna and Molly influence Tommy…06:32
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12Molly telephoned, in a state of near collapse, soon after.07:49
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Disc 17
1The stairs were narrow and dark.06:58
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2Anna's voice cracked.07:25
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3At this moment a sound from the foot of the stairs.07:01
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4Anna went home slowly.06:37
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5The Notebooks – The black notebook now abandoned…03:47
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6The red notebook, like the black notebook…07:17
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7Meanwhile our old friendship had been restored…07:10
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8The yellow notebook continued.06:57
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9*7 A Short Story06:29
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10*12 A Short Story05:57
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11*19 The Romantic Tough School of Writing05:52
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12The blue notebook continued, but without dates.07:33
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Disc 18
1I put myself back into the state of mind…06:21
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2The American, Mr. Green, was coming today…05:17
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3Saul Green came to see the room and to leave his things.05:06
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4(From this point on in the diary, or chronicle…)08:50
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5Spent today playing 'the game'.06:57
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6I felt my stomach clench…05:03
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7He has a way of being about at the time…06:28
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8I wrote the last sentence three days ago…05:16
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9I slept lightly, with terrible dreams.05:33
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10Then we went to drink coffee, and we talked about politics…06:12
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11I sat in the kitchen and thought over what I'd just said.07:56
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12When he came back, I knew I'd been waiting…06:11
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13Then the delight vanished as I came across an entry…04:02
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Disc 19
1I've just been up to have another look at the diary…06:24
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2Today he came in and I knew by instinct…06:04
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3He gave me a quick, startled look and walked out.06:01
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4He stopped in his striding walk around the room…07:15
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5(*17) We have had a week of being happy.05:33
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6He said: 'Come here' – moving away and gesturing…04:42
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7Last night, when I had finished writing…07:05
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8But now, writing it, and reading what I've written…06:32
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9We began discussing the state of the left in Europe…05:26
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10Then in front of my eyes I saw the letter…05:36
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11Saul had not moved.06:56
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12When he came down it was late…08:10
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Disc 20
1I said to myself in my sleep…05:28
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2And then I got up and switched on the lights…07:52
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3After breakfast I took my shopping basket…06:59
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4The Golden Notebook06:27
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5As his feet went down the stairs…07:21
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6Then the dream, or the sleep, became quite thin…07:39
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7This voice faded; but already the film had changed.05:14
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8I woke into the stuffy dark of the room…06:25
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9I put on some early Armstrong. I sat on the floor.06:50
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10I rang Molly's number, and I said…06:14
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11And suddenly he leaped up and off the bed…07:45
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12He was cold, so I held him in my arms, full of happiness.04:29
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Disc 21
1I stood and thought…05:05
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2As soon as the dream came on…06:35
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3A short story: or a short novel: comic and ironic…08:52
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4I cooked and we slept.08:46
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5Free Women 5 – Molly gets married and Anna has an affair05:39
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6Anna found that she was spending her time in a curious way.05:57
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7One afternoon she went to sleep and dreamed.06:00
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8Late that night the bell rang.06:13
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9He returned to the table and remarked…05:23
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10At last he said: 'Well, that's fixed. Another soul for sanity.'07:56
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11In the morning she felt him deadly cold in her arms…04:20
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12When Janet came home she found Anna…05:05
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Total Playing Time: 27:32:23