Pippa Passes: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Pippa Passes, credited to Robert Browning, 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 Pippa Passes, by Robert Browning. Pippa Passes was a dramatic piece, as much play as poetry, by Robert Browning published in 1841 as the first volume of his Bells and Pomegranates series. The author described the work as the first of a series of dramatic pieces. His original idea was of a young, innocent girl, moving unblemished through the crime-ridden neighbourhoods of Asolo. The work caused outrage when it was first published, due to the matter-of-fact portrayals of many of the area's more disreputable characters – notably the adulterous Ottima – and for its frankness on sexual matters. Perhaps the most famous passage is below: The year's at the spring, And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn; God's in his Heaven - All's right with the world! (Summary by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Pippa Passes
• Author credits: Robert Browning
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 6
• Listed recording duration: 1:50:39

Catalogue topics

• drama
• poetry

Track guide

1. 0 - Dramatis Personae — 2:03
2. 1 - Prologue — 13:23
3. 2 - Act I — 27:26
4. 3 - Act II — 25:34
5. 4 - Act III — 21:12
6. 5 - Act IV — 21:04

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