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
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1Don Juan08:15
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2Canto the First08:56
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3Now Donna Inez had, with all her merit…08:47
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4But that which Donna Inez most desired…08:30
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5This heathenish cross restored the breed again…07:58
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6Poor Julia's heart was in an awkward state…09:00
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7He pored upon the leaves, and on the flowers…09:22
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8There is a dangerous silence in that hour…06:41
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9Man's a strange animal, and makes strange use…07:52
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Disc 2
1During this inquisition, Julia's tongue…09:11
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2No sooner was it bolted, than – Oh shame!09:55
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3Lights came at length, and men, and maids…09:32
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4If any person should presume to assert…07:24
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5Canto the Second11:17
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6His suite consisted of three servants and…11:22
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7At half-past eight o'clock, booms, hencoops…09:53
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8At length one whisper'd his companion, who…09:37
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Disc 3
1About this time a beautiful white bird…10:13
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2Her brow was overhung with coins of gold…09:59
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3Not so Haidée: she sadly toss'd and tumbled…10:26
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4And then fair Haidée tried her tongue…09:29
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5The coast – I think it was the coast that I…08:24
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6The lady watch'd her lover – and that hour…09:42
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7Canto the Third09:56
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8The approach of home to husbands and to sires…09:23
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Disc 4
1Advancing to the nearest dinner tray…09:16
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2The dinner made about a hundred dishes…09:33
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3Their poet, a sad trimmer, but no less…08:26
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4Milton's the prince of poets – so we say…10:02
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5Canto the Fourth09:26
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6I know not why, but in that hour to-night…10:29
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7A minute past, and she had been all tears…08:57
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8She woke at length, but not as sleepers wake…09:30
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Disc 5
1In a few words he told their hapless story…07:59
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2Of poets who come down to us…08:19
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3Canto the Fifth10:17
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4'All this is very fine, and may be true,'…10:01
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5'We must be near some place of man's abode…'10:28
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6The suit he thought most suitable to each…10:27
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7Before they enter'd, Baba paused to hint…10:44
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8Juan, the latest of her whims, had caught…10:30
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Disc 6
1A storm it raged, and like the storm it pass'd…10:24
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2Canto the Sixth10:05
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3I'm a philosopher; confound them all!10:53
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4But here the Mother of the Maids drew near…10:55
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5But all this time how slept, or dream'd, Dudù?11:25
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6Meantime Gulbeyaz, when her king was gone…10:29
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7Canto the Seventh06:00
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8The Russians now were ready to attack…07:49
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Disc 7
1'If' (says the historian here) 'I could report…'07:46
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2The whole camp rung with joy…10:22
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3Meantime these two poor girls…06:54
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4Canto the Eighth11:33
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5I almost lately have begun to doubt…09:44
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6Among the first, – I will not say the first…09:38
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7The town was enter'd: first one column made…11:46
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8Just at this instant, while their eyes were fix'd…10:52
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Disc 8
1In the mean time, cross-legg'd…09:56
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2Canto the Ninth10:22
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3'Tis time we should proceed with our good poem…09:05
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4So on I ramble, now and then narrating…10:04
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5What a strange thing is man?10:13
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6Canto the Tenth10:20
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7About this time, as might have been anticipated…10:00
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8There was just then a kind of a discussion…08:11
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Disc 9
1From thence to Holland's Hague…11:39
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2Canto the Eleventh10:00
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3Through this, and much, and more…10:15
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4In the great world, – which, being interpreted…11:11
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5Thrice happy he who, after a survey…11:02
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6Canto the Twelth11:04
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7And now to business. – O my gentle Juan…10:49
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Disc 10
1I said that Lady Pinchbeck had been talk'd about…10:10
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2Though travell'd, I have never had the luck to…08:46
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3Canto the Thirteenth10:50
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4At Blank-Blank Square; – for we will break…09:54
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5The London winter and the country summer…08:20
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6The mansion's self was vast and venerable…10:37
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7Good company's a chess-board…10:38
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Disc 11
1Canto the Fourteenth10:29
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2Alas! worlds fall – and woman, since she fell'd…10:39
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3There's nought in this bad world like sympathy…12:27
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4There is a flower call'd 'Love in Idleness,'…12:23
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5Canto the Fifteenth10:12
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6I think I should have made a decent spouse…10:26
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7Now it so happen'd, in the catalogue…09:54
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Disc 12
1The glasses jingled, and the palates tingled…13:06
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2Canto the Sixteenth07:21
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3The forms of the grim knight and pictured saint…10:06
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4After some fascinating hesitation…09:49
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5There was a modern Goth, I mean a Gothic…12:20
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6But 'en avant!' The light loves languish o'er…09:17
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7The ghost at least had done him this much good…08:05
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8Canto the Seventeenth06:31
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Total Playing Time: 15:18:34