The Prussian Officer and Other Stories by D. H. Lawrence audiobook.

Genre: drama

D. H. Lawrence's The Prussian Officer and Other Stories gathers a sharp, unsettling set of early tales in which ordinary lives are pressed to the edge by authority, desire, shame, and the body itself. In the title story, an aging Prussian captain, rigid with discipline and pride, drives his young orderly through relentless marches and humiliations, until the closed world of military hierarchy becomes a pressure chamber of obsession and fear. Around it, Lawrence turns his gaze to miners, clerks, lovers, and families in England and on the Continent, tracing how social class, gender expectations, and unspoken longings shape every gesture. Whether in a cramped home where tenderness curdles into resentment, a relationship tested by jealousy and dependency, or a community that polices what it cannot name, Lawrence writes with intense psychological immediacy and physical detail. These stories do not offer easy comfort; they expose the costs of repression and the dangerous intimacy between cruelty and need. Unflinching and vividly human, the collection is a portrait of people struggling for dignity and connection under forces they barely understand.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:25:46) Chapter 02

(00:44:06) Chapter 03

(00:55:34) Chapter 04

(01:19:06) Chapter 05

(01:40:57) Chapter 06

(01:59:26) Chapter 07

(02:15:41) Chapter 08

(02:35:33) Chapter 09

(02:52:04) Chapter 10

(03:10:52) Chapter 11

(03:34:31) Chapter 12

(03:56:03) Chapter 13

(04:15:17) Chapter 14

(04:29:14) Chapter 15

(04:46:31) Chapter 16

(05:13:03) Chapter 17

(05:34:09) Chapter 18

(06:05:44) Chapter 19

(06:18:46) Chapter 20

(06:31:44) Chapter 21

(06:51:50) Chapter 22

(07:07:20) Chapter 23

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