Books by Lord Byron

Don Juan es un poema satírico en prosa escrito por Lord Byron, basado en la leyenda de Don Juan. El autor retrata a Don Juan no como un mujeriego, sino como a alguien fácilmente seducido por las mujeres. Es una variante de la forma épica, una sátira con visos de comedia.Considerada como una obra maestra, Byron completó 16 cantos, dejando el canto 17 sin terminar a causa de su muerte en 1824.George Gordon Byron, más conocido como Lord Byron (1788-1824) fue un poeta inglés, considerado uno de los escritores más versátiles e importantes del Romanticismo. Se involucró en revoluciones en Italia y en Grecia, y falleció en 1824 en Missolonghi.

Lord George Gordon Byron was the flamboyant aristocratic poet who is as renowned for his personal life as he is for his poetry. The victim of an untimely death, Lord Byron lived from 1788 to 1824. Despite this relatively short life he still managed to create a volume of poetry that achieved him the status as one of the greatest of all English poets. This representative selection includes such classics as "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", a sweeping narrative poem which relays the story of a world-weary young man who abandons a life of pleasure for distraction in foreign lands, and a selection from "Don Juan", generally considered by critics as Byron's masterpiece, which tells the legend of Don Juan as a man who is easily seduced by women instead of the more common womanizing portrayal. A leading figure of the Romantic movement, Lord Byron's poetry is still widely read and admired to this day. Fans of English Romantic poetry would be remiss in skipping this fine collection of over one hundred of Byron's classic poetic works. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

Originally published in 1913, this book presents the complete text of Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a long narrative poem in four parts. The text also contains extensive critical notes and an editorial introduction, supplying commentary upon historical, literary and topographical allusions within the poem.

Originally published in 1926, this volume contains the full text of Lord Byron's satirical poem on the fate of George III's soul, The Vision of Judgement. An editorial introduction is also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Byron and his works.

This collection contains Byron's most subversive, spirited and playful poetry as well as his outspoken prose, including speeches in the House of Lords which show him campaigning vigorously for justice in all walks of life.

The selected poems of a legendary romantic.Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was the quintessential Romantic. Flamboyant, charismatic and brilliant, he remains almost as notorious for his life - as a political revolutionary, sexual adventurer and traveller - as he does for his literary work. Yet he produced some of the most daring and exuberant poetry of the Romantic age, from 'To Caroline' and 'To Woman' to the satirical English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, his exotic Eastern tales and the colourful narrative of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, the work that made him famous overnight and gave birth to the idea of the brooding Byronic hero.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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.

This volume comprises the complete poetic works of Byron. As well as including such works as "Childe Harold", "Don Juan", "The Two Foscari", "The Lament of Tasso" and "The Vision of Judgement", it also contains his shorter lyrical poems.

Dette bind handler om Don Juans opvækst og hans dannelsesrejse, der ender rent ud sagt fatalt. Skibet forliser og han skylles ene mand op på den græske kyst. Han forelsker sig i en sørøvers datter og som straf for dette bliver han senere solgt som slave på det tyrkiske slavemarked.Det kræver sin mand (eller kvinde) at læse dette værk - man skal kende sine klassikere og sin historie - heldigvis har vi jo idag nettet som en stor hjælp. Ukendte personer samt sære vendinger kan i løbet af et øjeblik slåes op - så der er ingen undskyldning - bare kom igang!

Don Juan deltager i den Russisk-Tyrkiske krig, og kommer ud for mange blodige og grusomme begivenheder. Han redder en lille tyrkisk pige som han tager til sig. Efter sejren over tyrkerne bliver han sendt til Moskva som sendebud - czarinaen Katarina II forelsker sig voldsomt i ham og han opholder sig en tid lang ved dette hof. Af helbredsmæssige årsager m.m. bliver han som hemmelig gesandt sendt til England. Her optages han straks i de allerhøjeste kredse, hvis liv og færden her udmales i satiriske vendinger - og med god grund.Det kræver sin mand (eller kvinde) at læse dette værk - man skal kende sine klassikere og sin historie - heldigvis har vi jo idag nettet som en stor hjælp. Ukendte personer samt sære vendinger kan i løbet af et øjeblik slåes op - så der er ingen undskyldning - bare kom igang!

Lord Byrons store digt Don Juan er et genialt samfundsatirisk værk - her er den i sin oprindelige engelske version.