Don Juan, Lord Byron
Don Juan, Lord Byron
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Don Juan

Author: Lord Byron

Narrator: Frederick Davidson

Unabridged: 15 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Fiction, Poetry

Synopsis

Don Juan is a handsome, charming young man who delights in succumbing to the beautiful women he meets. Sprinkled with digressions in which Byron gives his views on wealth, power, society, chastity, poets, and England, Don Juan is a poetical novel of satirical fervor and wit, its structure varied and loose, its language exuberant and lyrical.

About Lord Byron

Lord Byron (1788–1824) was a Anglo-Scottish 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Roy on September 13, 2020

Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. The legend of Don Juan appears to be one of the most productive stories in all of literature. After its first setting by Tirso de Molina—still a classic of the Spanish stage—it has been adapted innumerable times.......more

Goodreads review by Manny on February 13, 2013

Byron's famous verse-novel is kind of uneven, but when he's on form it's both moving and witty. My favorite sequences are near the beginning, when the beautiful Donna Julia has fallen in love with young Juan and is having qualms of conscience. First she decides that she can no longer continue to see......more

Goodreads review by Jesús on February 15, 2019

"¡Qué hermosa estaba! Su corazón maduro ardía en sus mejías y no sentía ningún desdoro. Oh amor, cuán perfecto es tu aire místico, que da fuerzas al débil y aplasta al fuerte. Cuán engañados están los mortales más doctos, a los que tu señuelo ha arrastrado. Era inmenso el precipicio que ante ella se abría......more

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