Don Juan

by Baron George Gordon Byron

The legendary seducer reimagined as the hero of a sprawling, satirical verse epic.

At a glance Byron's Don Juan is less a wicked libertine than a wandering innocent, the excuse for a… The name promises a rake, but the poem delivers something slyer. Here the notorious Don Juan is swept along by events and by women more than he ever… What it's about Byron takes the old legend of the great seducer and turns it inside out…

Byron takes the old legend of the great seducer and turns it inside out, following his young hero from a scandal in his native Spain out across the wider world through shipwreck, love affairs, slavery, war, and the…