Don Juan
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Byron turns the legend of the great charmer 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.
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- Author
- Lord Byron
- Reading time
- About 9 hours
- Pages
- 502
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Classical Poetry
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