Don Juan, Cantos 13 -16: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Don Juan, Cantos 13 -16, credited to Lord 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, Cantos 13 -16, by Lord Byron. Read by Peter Gallagher. These are the last four Cantos of his mock epic that Byron completed in the year before his death at the age of 36 in Messolonghi, Greece, where he had gone to fight for the nationalists against the Ottoman Empire. Juan, now in England, is invited to spend the autumn with a hunting party at the ancient country seat of Lord Henry and Lady Adeline Amundeville. There, he meets the most intriguing of the Byronic heroines, Aurora Raby, and is visited by a ghost with ample breasts (!). That is the narrative outline but hardly the focus of the last Cantos. Byron is more interested satirizing the frailty of faith, the fecklessness of the English aristocracy, the futility of English pastimes and the fawning of elected Members of Parliament over their middle-class constituents. Booze, banquets, belles and bishops are given the Byronic treatment, while his spleen is reserved for his critics and for "tyranny". (Summary by Peter Gallagher)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Don Juan, Cantos 13 -16
• Author credits: Lord Byron
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 3:13:32

Catalogue topics

• adventure
• fiction
• myths/legends
• poetry
• romance

Track guide

1. 01 - Canto XIII — 48:47
2. 02 - Canto XIV — 46:49
3. 03 - Canto XV — 44:01
4. 04 - Canto XVI — 53:57

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