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Lord Byron: Don Juan (Unabridged)

Read by Jonathan Keeble

Lord Byron: Don Juan (Unabridged)

Lord Byron: Don Juan (Unabridged)

Read by Jonathan Keeble

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Lord Byron’s satirical take on the legend of Don Juan is a moving and witty poem that sees the young hero in a reversal of roles. Juan sheds his image as a womaniser and instead becomes the victim of circumstance as he is relentlessly pursued by every woman he meets. Comprising seventeen cantos of rhyming iambic pentameter, the poem is a crisp and accessible meditation on the madness of the world.

  • Release date: 29th Apr 2016
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Series: Poetry
  • Catalogue number: NA0223
  • Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

Contents and tracklist

Lord (George Gordon Byron) Byron: Don Juan (Unabridged)
Work length15:17:58
Don Juan
Track length8:14
Canto the First
Track length8:56
Now Donna Inez had, with all her merit…
Track length8:47
But that which Donna Inez most desired…
Track length8:30
This heathenish cross restored the breed again…
Track length7:58
Poor Julia's heart was in an awkward state…
Track length9:00
He pored upon the leaves, and on the flowers…
Track length9:22
There is a dangerous silence in that hour…
Track length6:41
Man's a strange animal, and makes strange use…
Track length7:50
During this inquisition, Julia's tongue…
Track length9:10
No sooner was it bolted, than – Oh shame!
Track length9:55
Lights came at length, and men, and maids…
Track length9:32
If any person should presume to assert…
Track length7:24
Canto the Second
Track length11:17
His suite consisted of three servants and…
Track length11:22
At half-past eight o'clock, booms, hencoops…
Track length9:53
At length one whisper'd his companion, who…
Track length9:34
About this time a beautiful white bird…
Track length10:12
Her brow was overhung with coins of gold…
Track length9:59
Not so Haidée: she sadly toss'd and tumbled…
Track length10:26
And then fair Haidée tried her tongue…
Track length9:29
The coast – I think it was the coast that I…
Track length8:24
The lady watch'd her lover – and that hour…
Track length9:42
Canto the Third
Track length9:56
The approach of home to husbands and to sires…
Track length9:21
Advancing to the nearest dinner tray…
Track length9:15
The dinner made about a hundred dishes…
Track length9:33
Their poet, a sad trimmer, but no less…
Track length8:26
Milton's the prince of poets – so we say…
Track length10:02
Canto the Fourth
Track length9:26
I know not why, but in that hour to-night…
Track length10:29
A minute past, and she had been all tears…
Track length8:57
She woke at length, but not as sleepers wake…
Track length9:28
In a few words he told their hapless story…
Track length7:58
Of poets who come down to us…
Track length8:19
Canto the Fifth
Track length10:17
'All this is very fine, and may be true,'…
Track length10:01
'We must be near some place of man's abode…'
Track length10:28
The suit he thought most suitable to each…
Track length10:27
Before they enter'd, Baba paused to hint…
Track length10:44
Juan, the latest of her whims, had caught…
Track length10:28
A storm it raged, and like the storm it pass'd…
Track length10:23
Canto the Sixth
Track length10:05
I'm a philosopher; confound them all!
Track length10:53
But here the Mother of the Maids drew near…
Track length10:55
But all this time how slept, or dream'd, Dudù?
Track length11:25
Meantime Gulbeyaz, when her king was gone…
Track length10:29
Canto the Seventh
Track length6:00
The Russians now were ready to attack…
Track length7:47
'If' (says the historian here) 'I could report…'
Track length7:45
The whole camp rung with joy…
Track length10:22
Meantime these two poor girls…
Track length6:54
Canto the Eighth
Track length11:33
I almost lately have begun to doubt…
Track length9:44
Among the first, – I will not say the first…
Track length9:38
The town was enter'd: first one column made…
Track length11:46
Just at this instant, while their eyes were fix'd…
Track length10:50
In the mean time, cross-legg'd…
Track length9:55
Canto the Ninth
Track length10:22
'Tis time we should proceed with our good poem…
Track length9:05
So on I ramble, now and then narrating…
Track length10:04
What a strange thing is man?
Track length10:13
Canto the Tenth
Track length10:20
About this time, as might have been anticipated…
Track length10:00
There was just then a kind of a discussion…
Track length8:08
From thence to Holland's Hague…
Track length11:39
Canto the Eleventh
Track length10:00
Through this, and much, and more…
Track length10:15
In the great world, – which, being interpreted…
Track length11:11
Thrice happy he who, after a survey…
Track length11:02
Canto the Twelth
Track length11:04
And now to business. – O my gentle Juan…
Track length10:47
I said that Lady Pinchbeck had been talk'd about…
Track length10:09
Though travell'd, I have never had the luck to…
Track length8:46
Canto the Thirteenth
Track length10:50
At Blank-Blank Square; – for we will break…
Track length9:54
The London winter and the country summer…
Track length8:20
The mansion's self was vast and venerable…
Track length10:37
Good company's a chess-board…
Track length10:36
Canto the Fourteenth
Track length10:29
Alas! worlds fall – and woman, since she fell'd…
Track length10:39
There's nought in this bad world like sympathy…
Track length12:27
There is a flower call'd 'Love in Idleness,'…
Track length12:23
Canto the Fifteenth
Track length10:12
I think I should have made a decent spouse…
Track length10:26
Now it so happen'd, in the catalogue…
Track length9:52
The glasses jingled, and the palates tingled…
Track length13:05
Canto the Sixteenth
Track length7:21
The forms of the grim knight and pictured saint…
Track length10:06
After some fascinating hesitation…
Track length9:49
There was a modern Goth, I mean a Gothic…
Track length12:20
But 'en avant!' The light loves languish o'er…
Track length9:17
The ghost at least had done him this much good…
Track length8:05
Canto the Seventeenth
Track length6:29
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