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Don Juan: Canto I

by Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824)

Don Juan is a long narrative poem by Byron, based very loosely on the legend of the evil seducer, Don Juan. The first and second of (eventually) seventeen Cantos composed during Byron’s self-imposed exile from England appeared, anonymously, in July 1819 and were greeted with scandal, condemnation, admiration and hilarity. Modern critics generally consider the self-proclaimed ‘epic’, which remained incomplete at Byron’s death, to be his masterpiece.

(Summary by Peter Gallagher)

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Total running time: 1:24:12
Read by Peter Gallagher

mp3 and ogg files

• Section 1 – 00:14:55
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• Section 2 – 00:07:17
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• Section 3 – 00:12:41
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  [mp3@128kbps - 12.1MB]
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• Section 4 – 00:13:56
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  [mp3@128kbps - 13.3MB]
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• Section 5 – 00:16:20
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  [mp3@128kbps - 15.6MB]
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• Section 6 – 00:12:05
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  [mp3@128kbps - 11.6MB]
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• Section 7 – 00:06:58
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  [ogg vorbis - 3.6MB]

Cataloged on November 28, 2006