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Brimfield News

Location

Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Dec 08, 1938

Page

8

Living Death in a Swiss Prison Cell Told by Byron

A fragmentary excerpt recounts three brothers cast into a deep Swiss dungeon beside Late Lemos where famine and cruelty prevail. The eldest and youngest brothers, chained apart, recall battles and a doomed noble lineage as hope fades and the youngest ceases to respond.

Ord Byton Chillon Lemos Switzerland

Lord Byron a Playboy

A compact portrait traces George Gordon Byron's life from a chaotic family start to unexpected inheritance. It notes his vanity and charm, troubled marriage, brief happiness with a English wife, marital rift, scandal, ostracism, and long exile in Italy.

George Gordon Lord Byron Gordon Byron England Lady Byron London Italy

The Prisoner of Chillon by Lord Byron at the Castle

The tale recalls a prisoner chained in the dungeon of Chillon near Lake Geneva. After years of isolation he glimpses freedom from a window and faces a solitary future with no kin or friend to receive him. The poem by Lord Ezra Byron reflects on loneliness and the true cost of liberty.

Keenes Lake Leman Keper Hem Ez 7 Chillon Francois Bonvard Cinerun Castle of Lake Geneva Bell Syndicate WNU Service Miriam Hopkins Anatole Litvak New York Fredric March Madeline Carroll Wendy Barne

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