In this rambling, exuberant, conversational poem, the travels of Don Juan are used as a vehicle for some of the most lively and acute commentaries on human societies and behaviour in the language. The manner is what Goethe called 'a cultured comic language'-a genre which he regarded as not possible in German and which he felt Byron managed superbly.

Penguin Books, 1996.
ISBN: 9780140422160. 759 pp.
Softcover. Near fine.