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Don Juan

by Lord Byron

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Byron turns the legend of the great seducer on its head, casting Don Juan not as a predator but as a handsome young man forever swept along by the women who pursue him. Across sixteen cantos of nimble ottava rima, he shipwrecks his hero, strands him in love on a Greek island, sells him into a Turkish harem, sends him to war, and drops him into the bed of Catherine the Great before landing him in hypocritical English society. The plot is almost an excuse; the real pleasure is Byron's voice, digressing, gossiping, and skewering the poets, politicians, and pieties of his age. Witty, worldly, and gloriously unfinished, it remains his boldest work. Read it free in this PDF and EPUB edition.

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Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, was a British poet. He was one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest British poets. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narratives Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; many of his shorter lyrics in Hebrew Melodies also became popular.