Download The Poetry of Lord Byron, Volume VIII: Turkish Tales AudioBook Free

Really is endless you will enjoy these fine, old-fashioned stories that Lord Byron wrote in an old-fashioned way. He tells these stories in rhyming verse and heroic couplets, and he makes them dashing, intimate, and even melodramatic in a manner that has become foreign to us with the duration of time. These are stories of the Ottoman Empire, the Turkish nation that, in Lord Byron's day, encompassed what we now know as the center East, from Iran to Morocco; the present day nation of Turkey; and the Balkans as well: modern Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, and the other Balkan countries. Byron travelled thoroughly in the Empire and learned about its record and customs. Then transferred what he learned through his own intimate temperament and creativeness, and through his desire for men with darkly stressed souls and the women they love and who love them. In these five stories we find love and honor lost and earned, hearts and towns conquered and destroyed, and a constant struggle to find something higher, deeper and finer in life than what comes to the common lot of humanity. The stories include "The Giaour", "The Bride-to-be of Abydos", "The Corsair", "Lara", and "The Siege of Corinth".

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