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Selections from the the illustrations,verse and audio of a new e‑book version of Byrons’ comic masterpiece, Don Juan”: available in the Apple iBooks store from September 2012, for the iPad and iPhone. You can download...

1 & 2 Bob Southey! You’re a poet, poet laureate, And representative of all the race. Although ’tis true that you turned out a Tory at Last, yours has lately been a common case. And...

26 Don Jóse and the Donna Inez led For some time an unhappy sort of life, Wishing each other, not divorced, but dead. They lived respectably as man and wife, Their conduct was exceedingly well-bred...

90 Young Juan wandered by the glassy brooks Thinking unutterable things. He threw Himself at length within the leafy nooks Where the wild branch of the cork forest grew. There poets find materials for their...

99 A real husband always is suspicious, But still no less suspects in the wrong place, Jealous of someone who had no such wishes, Or pandering blindly to his own disgrace By harbouring some dear...

115 And Julia sate with Juan, half embraced And half retiring from the glowing arm, Which trembled like the bosom where’twas placed. Yet still she must have thought there was no harm, Or else’twere easy...

154 ‘And now, Hidalgo, now that you have thrown Doubt upon me, confusion over all, Pray have the courtesy to make it known Who is the man you search for? How d’ye call Him? What’s...