Don Juan, Canto V: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Don Juan, Canto V, credited to Lord George Gordon Byron, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Don Juan, Canto V, by Lord George Gordon Byron. Read by Peter Gallagher. Juan, captured by Turkish pirates and sold into slavery is bought by a beautiful Princess as her toy-boy. Dressed as an odalisque, he is smuggled into the Sultan's harem for a steamy assignation. Unbelievably, Byron's publisher almost baulked at this feast of allusive irony, blasphemy (mild), calumny, scorn, lesse-majeste, cross-dressing, bestiality, assassination, circumcision and dwarf-tossing. This was the last Canto published by the stuffy John Murray (who had, however, made a tidy fortune on the earlier parts of the Epic). Although Byron's mood starts, after this, to grow darker and his bitterness at English hypocrisy to grow sharper, his discursive comedy and precise and intriguing rhyme is rarely better than in Canto V. (Summary by Peter Gallagher)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Don Juan, Canto V
• Author credits: Lord George Gordon Byron
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 8
• Listed recording duration: 1:15:48

Catalogue topics

• Poetry

Track guide

1. 1 - Canto V, Part 1 — 12:31
2. 2 - Canto V, Part 2 — 9:46
3. 3 - Canto V, Part 3 — 14:19
4. 4 - Canto V. Part 4 — 8:29
5. 5 - Canto V, Part 5 — 8:48
6. 6 - Canto V, Part 6 — 5:43
7. 7 - Canto V, Part 7 — 8:37
8. 8 - Canto V, Part 8 — 7:39

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