The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

George Gordon Byron

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330339975 ISBN 13 : 9781330339978

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore a Romantic masterpiece of forbidden love and haunted landscapes
This edition brings Byron’s fragmented Turkish tale to life, weaving remote shores, moonlit seas, and a brooding atmosphere of fate and yearning. The poem follows the Giaour through stark deserts, besieged temples, and shadowed groves, where beauty and danger mingle beneath a gaze that cannot forget.

Rich, archaic imagery and restless emotion drive a story that blends love, vengeance, and the lure of the unknown. The setting shifts from sunlit harbors to ruined sanctuaries, painting a world where freedom and tyranny, devotion and doom, collide in a single, unforgettable mood.

• Experience vivid scenes of Eastern landscapes and maritime peril in verse.


• Meet a complex cast whose desires test honor, faith, and loyalty.


• Feel the tension between beauty and fatal consequence that runs through the work.


• Discover Byron’s characteristic blend of lyric intensity and narrative fragment.

Ideal for readers who enjoy Romantic poetry, classic world literature, and atmospheric tales of love and exile.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale

The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common in the East than formerly; either because the ladies are more circumspect than in the "olden time;" or because the Christians have better fortune, or less enterprize. The story, when entire, contained the adventures of a female slave, w'ho was thrown, in the Mussulman manner, into the sea for infidelity, and avenged by a young Venetian, her lover, at the time the Seven Islands were possessed by the Republic of Venice, and soon after the Arnauts were beaten back from the Morea, which they had ravaged for some time subsequent to the Russian invasion. The desertion of the Mainotes, on being refused the plunder of Misitra, led to the abandonment of that enterprize, and to the desolation of the Morea, during which the cruelty exercised on all sides was unparalleled even in the annals of the faithful.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330339975
• ISBN 13: 9781330339978
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 86
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