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Author(s): Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Reader(s): Keeble, Jonathan
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Poetry
Period: Romantic
Catalogue No: NA0223
Barcode: 9781843799429
Release Date: 01/2016
BYRON, L.: Don Juan (Unabridged)
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.
Tracklist
Disc 1
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) - Author
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
|  | 1 | Don Juan | 08:15 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 2 | Canto the First | 08:56 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 3 | Now Donna Inez had, with all her merit… | 08:47 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 4 | But that which Donna Inez most desired… | 08:30 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 5 | This heathenish cross restored the breed again… | 07:58 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 6 | Poor Julia's heart was in an awkward state… | 09:00 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 7 | He pored upon the leaves, and on the flowers… | 09:22 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 8 | There is a dangerous silence in that hour… | 06:41 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 9 | Man's a strange animal, and makes strange use… | 07:52 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
Disc 2
| | 1 | During this inquisition, Julia's tongue… | 09:11 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 2 | No sooner was it bolted, than – Oh shame! | 09:55 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 3 | Lights came at length, and men, and maids… | 09:32 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 4 | If any person should presume to assert… | 07:24 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 5 | Canto the Second | 11:17 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 6 | His suite consisted of three servants and… | 11:22 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 7 | At half-past eight o'clock, booms, hencoops… | 09:53 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 8 | At length one whisper'd his companion, who… | 09:37 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
Disc 3
| | 1 | About this time a beautiful white bird… | 10:13 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 2 | Her brow was overhung with coins of gold… | 09:59 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 3 | Not so Haidée: she sadly toss'd and tumbled… | 10:26 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 4 | And then fair Haidée tried her tongue… | 09:29 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 5 | The coast – I think it was the coast that I… | 08:24 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 6 | The lady watch'd her lover – and that hour… | 09:42 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 7 | Canto the Third | 09:56 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 8 | The approach of home to husbands and to sires… | 09:23 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
Disc 4
| | 1 | Advancing to the nearest dinner tray… | 09:16 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 2 | The dinner made about a hundred dishes… | 09:33 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 3 | Their poet, a sad trimmer, but no less… | 08:26 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 4 | Milton's the prince of poets – so we say… | 10:02 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 5 | Canto the Fourth | 09:26 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 6 | I know not why, but in that hour to-night… | 10:29 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 7 | A minute past, and she had been all tears… | 08:57 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 8 | She woke at length, but not as sleepers wake… | 09:30 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
Disc 5
| | 1 | In a few words he told their hapless story… | 07:59 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 2 | Of poets who come down to us… | 08:19 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 3 | Canto the Fifth | 10:17 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 4 | 'All this is very fine, and may be true,'… | 10:01 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 5 | 'We must be near some place of man's abode…' | 10:28 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 6 | The suit he thought most suitable to each… | 10:27 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 7 | Before they enter'd, Baba paused to hint… | 10:44 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 8 | Juan, the latest of her whims, had caught… | 10:30 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
Disc 6
| | 1 | A storm it raged, and like the storm it pass'd… | 10:24 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 2 | Canto the Sixth | 10:05 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 3 | I'm a philosopher; confound them all! | 10:53 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 4 | But here the Mother of the Maids drew near… | 10:55 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 5 | But all this time how slept, or dream'd, Dudù? | 11:25 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 6 | Meantime Gulbeyaz, when her king was gone… | 10:29 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 7 | Canto the Seventh | 06:00 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 8 | The Russians now were ready to attack… | 07:49 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
Disc 7
| | 1 | 'If' (says the historian here) 'I could report…' | 07:46 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 2 | The whole camp rung with joy… | 10:22 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 3 | Meantime these two poor girls… | 06:54 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 4 | Canto the Eighth | 11:33 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 5 | I almost lately have begun to doubt… | 09:44 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 6 | Among the first, – I will not say the first… | 09:38 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 7 | The town was enter'd: first one column made… | 11:46 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 8 | Just at this instant, while their eyes were fix'd… | 10:52 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
Disc 8
| | 1 | In the mean time, cross-legg'd… | 09:56 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 2 | Canto the Ninth | 10:22 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 3 | 'Tis time we should proceed with our good poem… | 09:05 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 4 | So on I ramble, now and then narrating… | 10:04 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 5 | What a strange thing is man? | 10:13 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 6 | Canto the Tenth | 10:20 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 7 | About this time, as might have been anticipated… | 10:00 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 8 | There was just then a kind of a discussion… | 08:11 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
Disc 9
| | 1 | From thence to Holland's Hague… | 11:39 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 2 | Canto the Eleventh | 10:00 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 3 | Through this, and much, and more… | 10:15 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 4 | In the great world, – which, being interpreted… | 11:11 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 5 | Thrice happy he who, after a survey… | 11:02 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 6 | Canto the Twelth | 11:04 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 7 | And now to business. – O my gentle Juan… | 10:49 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
Disc 10
| | 1 | I said that Lady Pinchbeck had been talk'd about… | 10:10 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 2 | Though travell'd, I have never had the luck to… | 08:46 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 3 | Canto the Thirteenth | 10:50 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 4 | At Blank-Blank Square; – for we will break… | 09:54 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 5 | The London winter and the country summer… | 08:20 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 6 | The mansion's self was vast and venerable… | 10:37 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 7 | Good company's a chess-board… | 10:38 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
Disc 11
| | 1 | Canto the Fourteenth | 10:29 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 2 | Alas! worlds fall – and woman, since she fell'd… | 10:39 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 3 | There's nought in this bad world like sympathy… | 12:27 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 4 | There is a flower call'd 'Love in Idleness,'… | 12:23 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 5 | Canto the Fifteenth | 10:12 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 6 | I think I should have made a decent spouse… | 10:26 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 7 | Now it so happen'd, in the catalogue… | 09:54 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
Disc 12
| | 1 | The glasses jingled, and the palates tingled… | 13:06 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 2 | Canto the Sixteenth | 07:21 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 3 | The forms of the grim knight and pictured saint… | 10:06 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 4 | After some fascinating hesitation… | 09:49 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 5 | There was a modern Goth, I mean a Gothic… | 12:20 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 6 | But 'en avant!' The light loves languish o'er… | 09:17 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 7 | The ghost at least had done him this much good… | 08:05 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
| | 8 | Canto the Seventeenth | 06:31 |
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
Total Playing Time: 15:18:34