The White Peacock
By D. H. Lawrence
Narrated by Patrick Barker
Lawrence's first novel tells the tale of a love triangle between Lettie Beardsall and her neighbours, George Saxton, son of a farmer, and Leslie Tempest, the local mine owners' son. Lettie will marry Leslie, but remain sexually attracted George. George also marries but falls victim to alcohol. Inspired by Maurice Greiffenhagen's painting `An Idyll', `The White Peacock' is both a romance and a novel about class and the industrialisation of the English countryside that draws on Lawrence's youth. Though it bears traces of his apprenticeship as a novelist, `The White Peacock' is a mature work that anticipates the psychological themes of `Sons and Lovers' and the gamekeeper character of `Lady Chatterley's Lover'.
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