Don Juan (eBook)

Including The Life of Lord Byron

Lord Byron (Autor)

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2019
919 Seiten
e-artnow (Verlag)
405-766455629-5 (EAN)

Infos

Don Juan is a satiric poem by Lord Byron, based on the legend of Don Juan, which Byron reverses, portraying Juan not as a womanizer but as someone easily seduced by women. As a young man he is precocious sexually, and has an affair with a friend of his mother. The husband finds out, and Don Juan is sent away to Cádiz. On the way, he is shipwrecked, survives and meets the daughter of a pirate, whose men sell Don Juan as a slave. A young woman, who is a member of a sultan's harem, sees that this slave is purchased. She disguises him as a girl and sneaks him into her chambers. Don Juan escapes, joins the Russian army and rescues a Muslim girl named Leila. Don Juan meets Catherine the Great, who asks him to join her court. Don Juan becomes sick, is sent to England, where he finds someone to watch over Leila. Moving from one place to the next, Don Juan encounters new women and new adventures.

Autor

Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) was an English poet, peer, and politician who became a revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence, and is considered one of the historical leading figures of the Romantic movement of his era. He is regarded as one of the greatest English poets and remains widely read and influential. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; many of his shorter lyrics in Hebrew Melodies also became popular.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.12.2019
• Verlagsort: Prague
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: Beowulf • Byronic hero • classic tale • court intrigue • Dear Midnight • historical fiction • John Keats • Leaves of Grass • legend reversal • literary satire • milk and honey • Paradise Lost • Percy Bysshe Shelley • pirate adventure • Romantic escapades • Satirical Poem • seduction story • Shakespeare • the odyssey • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner