The Giaour - A Fragment of a Turkish Tale - Couverture souple

Byron, George Gordon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1446024504 ISBN 13 : 9781446024508

Editeur : Ragged Hand - Read & Co., 2010

Synopsis

A woman drowned for loving the wrong man, a Turkish lord cut down in revenge, and a Christian stranger left to live with it: the first of Byron's Turkish tales.

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) had not long come home from two years in Greece and the Levant, and The Giaour grew out of what he saw there. Leila is thrown into the sea in a sack for her unfaithfulness; Hassan, who ordered it, is killed by the giaour – an unbeliever, in Turkish – who then ends his days in a monastery, unable to repent and unable to forget. John Murray published it in 1813. It went through fourteen editions in two years and swelled from about seven hundred lines to more than thirteen hundred as Byron kept adding to it.

He built the poem as a fragment and handed it to three voices in turn – a Turkish fisherman, a monk, and the giaour himself – so that the same events reach us twice over from opposite sides of a religious divide. The lines move fast, in short irregular runs of rhyme that suit a story told in pieces. In one passage the fisherman curses the giaour to rise from his grave and prey on his own family, which makes this one of the earliest appearances of the vampire in English verse, six years ahead of Polidori's The Vampyre and out of the same circle.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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Présentation de l'éditeur

First published in 1813, “The Giaour” is a poem by Lord Byron originally published in 1813. It was the first in the series of his Oriental romances and enjoyed great success when published, arguably solidifying his reputation both commercially and critically. George Gordon Byron (1788 – 1824), more commonly known as Lord Byron, was a British peer, poet, politician, and leading figure in the Romantic movement. He is widely considered as one of the greatest British poets and is widely read to this day. His most notable works include the narrative poems “Don Juan” and “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”. “The Giaour” is highly recommended for lovers of English Romantic poetry and constitutes a must-read for fans and lovers of Byron's seminal work. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ragged Hand - Read & Co.
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1446024504
• ISBN 13: 9781446024508
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 87
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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