Don Juan (Deseret Alphabet Edition)

George Gordon Byron 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824) was an English peer. He's best known today for his poetry but also dabbled in politics and died supporting the Greek War of Independence. In his day he had a scandalous reputation because of his irregular home life and radical politics. Byronic heroes-dark brooding and dangerous-were a staple of Romantic literature and named for him. Byron is also notable for fathering the English mathematician Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) his only (legitimate) offspring.Don Juan is considered Byron's magnum opus: a long satirical poem about life social mores literary and political in-fighting-and occasionally Don Juan. Byron borrows the name only (not even the name's pronunciation!) from Spanish folklore. His Don Juan is not a heartless seducer but a beautiful young man who cannot help having women fall in love with him as he travels the Europe of his day.This book is in the Deseret Alphabet a phonetic alphabet for writing English developed in the mid-19th century at the University of Deseret (now the University of Utah).