The Prisoner of Chillon: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Prisoner of Chillon, credited to George Gordon, Lord Byron, 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 The Prisoner of Chillon by George Gordon, Lord Byron. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers Lord Byron visited the Castle of Chillon on Lake Geneva in Switzerland in 1816 and was intrigued by the legend of Francis Bonnivard who was said to have been imprisoned there in medieval times. The title poem of this collection was written in response to that visit. Originally published in 1816 this collection was extended after Byron's death. The final poem was written on his 36th birthday, just 3 months before he died. - Summary by Alan Mapstone

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Prisoner of Chillon
• Author credits: George Gordon, Lord Byron
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 1:40:55

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• English
• byron

Track guide

1. 01 - The Prisoner of Chillon — 25:32
2. 02 - Sonnet on Chillon — 1:34
3. 03 - Fare Thee Well — 5:12
4. 04 - She Walks in Beauty — 1:10
5. 05 - The Destruction of Sennacherib — 1:51
6. 06 - Jephthah's Daughter — 1:23
7. 07 - On a Distant View of the Village and School of Harrow on the Hill — 2:59
8. 08 - Maid of Athens, ere we part — 1:32
9. 09 - Stanzas to Augusta — 4:19
10. 10 - Epistle to Augusta — 10:20
11. 11 - When we two parted — 1:44
12. 12 - Stanzas for Music — 3:34
13. 13 - The Dream — 11:08
14. 14 - To Thomas Moore — 0:56
15. 15 - So, we'll go no more a-roving — 0:49
16. 16 - On the Bust of Helen by Canova — 0:43
17. 17 - A very mournful ballad on the Siege and Conquest of Alhama — 7:17
18. 18 - Stanzas: "Could love for ever" — 2:59
19. 19 - Darkness — 7:00
20. 20 - Prometheus — 4:06
21. 21 - Stanzas written on the road between Florence and Pisa — 1:47
22. 22 - On this day I complete my thirty-sixth year — 3:00

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