A Dark Month: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Dark Month, credited to Algernon Charles Swinburne, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of A Dark Month by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Read in English by Larry Wilson; Sonia; George Allen; tovarisch; Crln Yldz Ksr This is a sequence of poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne. The poems were written in 1881, during the one month in which his seven year old neighbor, Herbert (Bertie) Mason was away.Swinburne describes in 31 poems his feelings at the loss of his young companion, resulting in haunting images of loneliness and grief. - Summary by Carolin

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Dark Month
• Author credits: Algernon Charles Swinburne
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 50:38

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• poem
• London
• grief
• loss

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 01 - I — 2:27
2. 02 - II — 1:04
3. 03 - III — 2:14
4. 04 - IV — 1:45
5. 05 - V — 1:07
6. 06 - VI — 1:23
7. 07 - VII — 1:26
8. 08 - VIII — 1:15
9. 09 - IX — 1:25
10. 10 - X — 2:15
11. 11 - XI — 1:33
12. 12 - XII — 1:14
13. 13 - XIII — 2:42
14. 14 - XIV — 1:30
15. 15 - XV — 1:28
16. 16 - XVI — 1:01
17. 17 - XVII — 1:23
18. 18 - XVIII — 1:42
19. 19 - XIX — 2:50
20. 20 - XX — 1:42
21. 21 - XXI — 1:23
22. 22 - XXII — 1:05
23. 23 - XXIII — 1:28
24. 24 - XXIV — 1:33

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