Don Juan (LIBRARY EDITION)

ISBN 10: 0786160632 ISBN 13: 9780786160631

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, 2007

[Library Edition Audiobook CD format in sturdy Vinyl case.]

[Read by Frederick Davidson]

Byron's exuberant masterpiece narrates the exploits of Don Juan, a handsome and charming young man naturally gifted with the ladies. After his first illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain, Don Juan is exiled to Italy and catapulted into a string of adventures that send him into dire peril and luxurious boudoirs around the world. Following a dramatic shipwreck and an affair with a pirate's daughter on a Greek island, he is sold into slavery and finds himself in a Sultan's harem, then in battle in Turkey, and finally in Russia, where he becomes the lover of Catherine the Great.

Written in ottava rima stanza form, Byron's Don Juan blends high drama with outrageous farce. Sprinkled with digressions on wealth, power, society, chastity, poets, and England, Don Juan is a poetical novel of satirical fervor and wit.

About the Author:

LORD BYRON (1788-1824) [George Gordon Noel Byron] was a British poet and a leading figure in the romanticism movement. His best known poems include ''She Walks in Beauty,'' ''When We Two Parted,'' and ''So, We'll Go No More a Roving,'' among many others.