Go
 

Get this free title from:




Free Stuff in These Categories
Find More Titles by
This Author: George Gordon Byron
This Narrator: Peter Gallagher
This Publisher: LibriVox

Don Juan: Canto V by George Gordon Byron

Don Juan: Canto V

by George Gordon Byron

Title Details

Narrator
Publisher
 
Unabridged Edition
Running Time
1 Hr. 16 Min.

Description

Juan, captured by Turkish pirates and sold into slavery is bought by a beautiful Princess as her toy-boy. Dressed as an odalisque, he is smuggled into the Sultan's harem for a steamy assignation. Unbelievably, Byron's publisher almost baulked at this feast of allusive irony, blasphemy (mild), calumny, scorn, lesse-majeste, cross-dressing, bestiality, assassination, circumcision and dwarf-tossing. This was the last Canto published by the stuffy John Murray (who had, however, made a tidy fortune on the earlier parts of the Epic). Although Byron's mood starts, after this, to grow darker and his bitterness at English hypocrisy to grow sharper, his discursive comedy and precise and intriguing rhyme is rarely better than in Canto V. (Summary by Peter Gallagher)

People Who Liked Don Juan: Canto V Also Liked These Free Titles:
  Lady Susan
by Jane Austen

  Captains Courageous
by Rudyard Kipling

  The Old Wives' Tale
by Arnold Bennett

Podcast Details




Podcast RSS Feed URL: