The Legend of Don Juan has been told throughout the centuries. This romantic/adventure tale will delight the reader. Lord Byron was born in 1788 in England. He was a leading Romantic poet. Don Juan is one of his best known works even though it was unfinished at his death. Don Juan is a digressive satiric poem based on the legend of Don Juan. Don Juan was a womanized but he also fell easily under a woman's spell. In Byron's poem Don Juan is portrayed in a more humorous way instead of as the tormented soul in previous works.

Manfred, a Faustian noble, is tortured by guilt over the death of his beloved, Astarte. He uses his mastery of language and spell-casting to summon seven spirits, from whom he seeks forgetfulness. The spirits are unable to control the past and thus cannot grant Manfred's plea.

LOVE LETTERS OF GREAT MEN (Volume 1) is an anthology of romantic love letters written by leading male historical figures. *** The book plays a key role in the plot of the US movie Sex and the City. *** When Carrie Bradshaw in the "Sex and the City" movie began reading the book Love Letters of Great Men, millions of women wanted to get their hands on the book. Of course, what could be more romantic than an entire book of love letters, written by men *** The book includes love letters written by Ludwig van Beethoven, Pietro Bembo, Napolean Bonaparte, Rupert Brooke, Robert Browning, Robert...

Love Letters of Great Men (Volume 2) is a collection of romantic love poems written by leading male historical figures. *** Volume 1 plays a key role in the plot of the US movie Sex and the City. *** This Volume 2 includes love poems written by Matthew Arnold, Alfred Austin, Samuel Alfred Beadle, William Blake, Christopher Brennan, Lord Byron, Robert Burns, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Constable, William Cowper, Michael Drayton, George Eliot, Thomas Ford, Stephen Foster, Robert Frost, Thomas Frost, Norman Rowland Gale, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Alfred P. Graves, Robert...

This volume includes among other poetical works Manfred, Byron's first experiments with Italian verse-forms and his first closet dramas.

Originally published in 1913, this book presents the complete text of Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a long narrative poem in four parts. The text also contains extensive critical notes and an editorial introduction, supplying commentary upon historical, literary and topographical allusions within the poem. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Byron and literary criticism.

El Corsario es, ante todo, un poema autobiografico que narra las aventuras de un tal Conrad, un corsario rechazado por la sociedad -no asi por las mujeres- debido a su comportamiento escandaloso. El poema inmediatamente atrajo la atencion del publico debido a la personalidad arrasadora de Byron, incluso algunos adeptos a la estadistica afirman que se llegaron a vender diez mil copias durante su primer dia en la calle. El exito de este poema fue tal que termino siendo adaptado a opera y ballet."

Don Juan has an illicit love affair at the age of sixteen, in Spain, and is exiled to Italy. After a terrifying shipwreck, he lands in Greece and is sold as a slave, then to Russia, where he becomes involved with Empress Catherine, then off to England. Join us for Byron's adventurous masterpiece, a combination of drama and humor, poking fun at Western society in the form of an epic poem.