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Don Juan de Lord George Gordon Byron

Don Juan

Autor Lord George Gordon Byron Editat de Richard S. Hartmetz
en Limba Engleză Paperback
Don Juan has an illicit love affair at the age of sixteen, in Spain, and is exiled to Italy. After a terrifying shipwreck, he lands in Greece and is sold as a slave, then to Russia, where he becomes involved with Empress Catherine, then off to England. Join us for Byron's adventurous masterpiece, a combination of drama and humor, poking fun at Western society in the form of an epic poem.
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ISBN-13: 9781494378769
ISBN-10: 1494378760
Pagini: 532
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: CREATESPACE

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Lord George Gordon Byron was a British Romantic poet whose life, celebrity, politics, scandals, and literary brilliance made him one of the most famous writers of the nineteenth century. Born in 1788, Byron became an international literary figure with Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, whose melancholy, restless, self-dramatising hero helped create the image now known as the Byronic figure. His poetry combined aristocratic confidence, political scepticism, sexual candour, wit, melancholy, and defiance in a way that made him both admired and notorious.Byron's major works include Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Manfred, The Giaour, The Corsair, Beppo, and Don Juan. Of these, Don Juan is often regarded as his greatest and most original achievement: a vast satirical poem that uses comic narrative, digression, social observation, and verbal brilliance to mock hypocrisy, war, empire, sexual morality, literary fashion, and political pretence. Britannica identifies Don Juan as Byron's masterpiece among his later long poems.In 1816 Byron left England permanently amid debt, scandal, and public controversy, living thereafter in Switzerland and Italy before becoming involved in the Greek struggle for independence. He died at Missolonghi in 1824 at the age of thirty-six. His reputation has never depended on respectability; it rests instead on the force of his style, the glamour and danger of his public image, and the enduring power of poems that refuse pious comfort. Byron remains one of the central figures of Romantic literature and one of the great satiric voices in English poetry.

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Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy.