Don Juan (Annotated)
By Lord Byron
- Release Date: 2015-10-31
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Description
Don Juan is a satirical 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. It is a variation on the epic form. Byron himself referred to it an "Epic Satire". Modern critics generally consider it Byron's masterpiece, with a total of more than 16,000 lines of verse. Byron completed 16 cantos, leaving an unfinished 17th canto before his death in 1824. Byron said he had no ideas in his mind as to what would happen in subsequent cantos as he wrote his work.
When the first two cantos were written anonymously in 1819, the poem was criticized for its 'immoral content', though it was also immensely popular.
This edition has been formatted for your Ibooks reader, with an active table of contents. This version is also annotated, with additional information about the poem and Lord Byron, such as an overview, history, plot, sources, the motive and the name, opinion, structure, biographical and bibliographical information.
