Spirits in Bondage: a cycle of lyrics: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Spirits in Bondage: a cycle of lyrics, credited to C.S. Lewis, 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 Spirits in Bondage: a cycle of lyrics, by C.S. Lewis. Read by Robert Garrison Spirits in Bondage is C.S. Lewis's first book and the first of his works to be available in the public domain. It was released in 1919 under the pseudonym of Clive Hamilton and was written in a period of darker thought for C.S. Lewis than was later evidenced in his Christian apologist writings. The darkness of the verse is most evident in Part One (The Prison House), begins to change in the short transitional Part Two (Hesitation) and attains a more hopeful tone in the final Part Three (Escape). Yet a dreamy effect, influenced by Celtic and Druid mythology, persists throughout. Spirits in Bondage consists of forty poems that provide an intriguing insight into the youthful heart of C.S. Lewis and occasionally provides interesting lyrical foreshadowing of some of the landscapes portrayed in his famous Chronicles of Narnia series. (Summary by Robert Garrison)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Spirits in Bondage: a cycle of lyrics
• Author credits: C.S. Lewis
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 3
• Listed recording duration: 1:17:55

Catalogue topics

• poetry

Track guide

1. Spirits in Bondage - Part 1 — 41:18
2. Spirits in Bondage - Part 2 — 6:59
3. Spirits in Bondage - Part 3 — 29:39

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