The Lost Girl, D. H. Lawrence
The Lost Girl, D. H. Lawrence
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The Lost Girl

Author: D. H. Lawrence

Narrator: Johanna Ward

Unabridged: 15 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

The Lost Girl is perhaps D.H. Lawrences most beautiful, thoroughly contemporary love story. This captivating novel charts the journey of a woman caught between two worlds and two lives, one mired in dreary, industrial England and a life of convention, the other set in the vibrant Italian landscape holding the promise of sensual liberation. Alvina Houghton is fading into spinsterhood when she meets Naplesborn Cicio, who reawakens her desire as she defies her stifling upperclass life.

About D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) was a British writer of novels, poems, essays, short stories, and plays. Some of the books he wrote in the early 1900s became controversial because they contained direct descriptions of sexual relations. His best-known books are Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lover.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Philip on December 29, 2012

In a very famous context, D. H. Lawrence is himself famous for using a word beginning with ‘f’, a word that is infamous rather than famous. Mentioning this word and then repeating it got the author into some serious trouble that was not resolved until decades after his death. In this book, The Lost......more