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    Cain: A Mystery
    Cain: A Mystery
    Cain: A Mystery
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    Cain: A Mystery

    Written by Lord Byron

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    Cain: A Mystery is Lord Byron's retelling of the classical Biblical story from the point of view of its antagonist. Undoubtedly influenced by Milton's Paradise Lost, Byron's Cain is defiant and questioning. In trying to come to terms with the mortality humanity has been punished with, he comes face to face with Lucifer, who takes him to the "Abyss of Space," shows him a vision of Earth's violent natural history, and gives him a true understanding of death. Upon his return, a devastated Cain carries out the familiar end of his tragedy. Cain: A Mystery is a closet drama, a popular form for Romantic writers, where the script is not intended to be performed onstage, but rather read aloud with a small group. - Summary by Sarah Terry

    With the voices of:
    alanmapstone as Adam,
    Peter Tucker as Cain,
    Beth Thomas as Abel,
    Libby Gohn as the Angel of the Lord,
    Mike Cantrell as Lucifer,
    TriciaG as Eve,
    Mary Kay as Adah,
    Amanda Friday as Zillah,
    and narrated by Availle.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Cain: A Mystery
    Author

    Lord Byron

    Lord Byron was an English poet and the most infamous of the English Romantics, glorified for his immoderate ways in both love and money. Benefitting from a privileged upbringing, Byron published the first two cantos of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage upon his return from his Grand Tour in 1811, and the poem was received with such acclaim that he became the focus of a public mania. Following the dissolution of his short-lived marriage in 1816, Byron left England amid rumours of infidelity, sodomy, and incest. In self-imposed exile in Italy Byron completed Childe Harold and Don Juan. He also took a great interest in Armenian culture, writing of the oppression of the Armenian people under Ottoman rule; and in 1823, he aided Greece in its quest for independence from Turkey by fitting out the Greek navy at his own expense. Two centuries of references to, and depictions of Byron in literature, music, and film began even before his death in 1824.

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