Zastrozzi, A Romance: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Zastrozzi, A Romance by Percy Bysshe Shelley: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 16 original MP3 tracks, 5:15:51 running time and a link to listen.
Zastrozzi, A Romance, credited to Percy Bysshe Shelley, 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 Zastrozzi, A Romance, by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Read by Martin Geeson. "Would Julia of Strobazzo’s heart was reeking on my dagger!" From the asthmatic urgency of its opening abduction scene to the Satanic defiance of the villain’s departure "with a wild convulsive laugh of exulting revenge", this first of Shelley’s Gothic novelettes recycles much sensational boyhood reading and also points to some of his more mature concerns. It is the ego-driven pursuit of passionate extremes, revenge included, which consigns figures like Zastrozzi and the murderous Matilda to an isolation which is socially destructive as well as self-annihilating. The story of their downfall is related in a relentlessly hysterical style – possibly more easily enjoyed when read aloud! (Summary by Martin Geeson)
Recording facts
- Recording title: Zastrozzi, A Romance
- Author credits: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 16
- Listed recording duration: 5:15:51
Catalogue topics
- percy shelley
- horror
- suicide
Track guide
- 01 - Chapter I — 14:33
- 02 - Chapter II — 11:21
- 03 - Chapter III — 11:56
- 04 - Chapter IV — 27:28
- 05 - Chapter V — 16:44
- 06 - Chapter VI — 19:50
- 07 - Chapter VIII (There is no Chapter VII) — 25:57
- 08 - Chapter IX — 30:02
- 09 - Chapter X — 22:36
- 10 - Chapter XI — 15:40
- 11 - Chapter XII — 21:56
- 12 - Chapter XIII — 31:45
- 13 - Chapter XIV — 14:00
- 14 - Chapter XV — 19:25
- 15 - Chapter XVI — 12:50
- 16 - Chapter XVII — 19:51
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