Don Juan

Author: Lord Byron

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April 21, 2024

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Mentioned as the work in which Byron gives a portrait of his half-sister Augusta as a slave girl named Dudu in a harem in Constantinople, describing her as 'a kind of sleepy Venus, somewhat large and languishing and lazy, yet of a beauty that would drive you crazy.' Reveals how Byron transmuted his most scandalous relationship into literature.