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Don Juan (Modern Library #24.3)
by BYRON, George Gordon Lord (Lord BYRON)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Good in Very Good dust jacket. [c.1955]. Hardcover. The famous romantic narrative poem by Lord Byron in a Modern Library reprint edition. With 16 cantos (including two versions of Canto I) and an introduction by Louis Kronenberger. --- In Toledano spine 8 / rust cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 374 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1955 (though probably erroneous "First Modern Library Edition, 1949" statement appears in book). ML #24.3. --- A Good-only copy, with plentiful red-inked notations and underlinings to several leaves, as well as prior owner's signature inked to verso of front free endpaper, else sound and tightly-bound. Price-clipped dust jacket with a couple of small tears at head of spine, two light blue specks to front panel, otherwise bright, intact and in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall) ; xiii, 514 pages .
Synopsis
Byron’s exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy. Following a dramatic shipwreck, his exploits take him to Greece, where he is sold as a slave, and to Russia, where he becomes a favorite of the Empress Catherine who sends him on to England. Written in ottava rima stanza form, Byron’s Don Juan blends high drama with earthy humor, outrageous satire of his contemporaries, and sharp mockery of Western societies, with England coming under particular attack. This authoritative edition now includes a completely new and substantially longer introduction that discusses the mythology of the Byronic hero Extensive annotation covers points of interest, selected variant readings, and the historical allusions Byron wove into his poem
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87459
- Title
- Don Juan (Modern Library #24.3)
- Author
- BYRON, George Gordon Lord (Lord BYRON)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1955]
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Poetry;
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- 12mo
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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