Giaour - A Fragment of a Turkish Tale

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 b...