{"id":1554,"date":"2021-01-27T13:58:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T13:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robgoll.com\/content\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2021-04-12T14:02:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T14:02:49","slug":"the-giaour-by-lord-byron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.robgoll.com\/content\/audiobooks\/the-giaour-by-lord-byron\/","title":{"rendered":"The Giaour by Lord Byron"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">*** New Audiobook Release ***<!--more--><\/h4>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">audiobook sample<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Giaour by Lord Byron - Audio sample by Rob Goll\" width=\"525\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F982419583&show_artwork=true&maxheight=788&maxwidth=525\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audible.com\/pd\/The-Giaour-Audiobook\/B08V4Z1L49\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Giaour on Audible<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audible.co.uk\/pd\/The-Giaour-Audiobook\/B08V36RJ9K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Giaour on Audible UK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Giaour\/dp\/B08V477YCM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Giaour on Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/The-Giaour\/dp\/B08V4NVF3X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Giaour on Amazon UK<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"bc-heading bc-color-base bc-spacing-small bc-size-medium bc-text-bold\"><strong>Publisher's Summary<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"bc-box bc-box-padding-none bc-spacing-small\">\n<p><i>The Giaour - A Fragment of a Turkish Tale<\/i>\u00a0is a narrative poem published in 1813. During that year, numerous versions were published, each successively longer than the last, before arriving at this final version of 1,334 lines.<\/p>\n<p>The poem is the first in the series of Byron's Oriental Romances, the first four of which are generally referred to as \"Turkish Tales\" - the other three poems being \"The Bride of Abydos\" (1813), \"The Corsair\" (1814), and \"Lara\" (1814).<\/p>\n<p>\"Giaour\" is a derogatory Turkish word for infidel or non-believer. The Giaour of the poem is a true Byronic Hero, a character type described by Lord Macaulay as \"a man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow, and misery in his heart, a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection\".<\/p>\n<p>The story is of a female slave, Leila, who loves the Giaour and is in consequence bound, thrown in a sack, and drowned in the sea by her Turkish lord, Hassan. 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