pasha's harem, whom he tries to free. This diversion enables the pasha's forces to mount a counterattack. They kill most of the attackers and seize Conrad. Gulnare, the pasha's slave, secretly goes to Conrad's prison cell, where she tells him that she will try to save him. This is in gratitude for his attempt to save her. In the third and final canto, Gulnare initiates the escape plan by trying to trick Seyd into freeing Conrad. When this fails, the pasha threatens to kill both her and Conrad. Gulnare tries to convince Conrad to kill Seyd, and arranges for a knife to be taken to his cell. Conrad refuses to kill the pasha in cold blood without a fair fight. She kills the pasha herself. Gulnare and Conrad escape, and he takes her back to his island. Upon his return, Conrad learns that his wife Medora has died from grief, believing that Conrad himself had died. In the final scene, Conrad departs from the island alone, without Gulnare: "He left a Corsair's name to other times,/Linked with one virtue and a thousand crimes." References Sources Drucker, Peter. 'Byron and Ottoman love: Orientalism, Europeanization and same sex sexualities in the early nineteenth-century Levant' (Journal of European Studies, vol. 42 no. 2, June 2012, 140–57). Garrett, Martin: George Gordon, Lord Byron. (British Library Writers' Lives). London: British Library, 2000. . Garrett, Martin. Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Byron. Palgrave, 2010. . Guiccioli, Teresa, contessa di, Lord Byron's Life in Italy, transl. Michael Rees, ed. Peter Cochran, 2005, . Grosskurth, Phyllis: Byron: The Flawed Angel. Hodder, 1997. . McGann, Jerome: Byron and Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. . Oueijan, Naji B. A Compendium of Eastern Elements in Byron's Oriental Tales. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1999. Ramsay, Jack C. (1996), Jean Laffite: Prince of Pirates, Eakin Press, Rosen, Fred: Bentham, Byron and Greece. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1992. . External links NPR: "'The Corsair,' Lord Byron's Best-Seller". The Corsair by Lord Byron, 1814, seventh edition. 1814 books Poetry by Lord Byron Romanticism 1810s works 1814 poems