Don Juan

"Don Juan" is Lord Byron's monumental satirical epic, a masterpiece of Romantic literature that subverts the traditional legend of the world-famous libertine. In this sweeping poetic narrative, Byron transforms the character of Don Juan from a predatory seducer into an innocent young man who finds himself the unwitting victim of various women's advances. The poem follows his picaresque adventures across Europe and the East, from his scandalous exile from Spain to shipwreck, slavery in Const...