| History of My Life Contributor(s): Casanova, Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt (Author), Trask, Willard R. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0801856663 ISBN-13: 9780801856662 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $49.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1997 Annotation: "All that a life of this kind can contain Casanova put into his story. And how much of the world! -- the eighteenth century as you get it in no other book; society from top to bottom; Europe from England to Russia, a more brilliant variety of characters than you can find in any eighteenth-century novel." -- Edmund Wilson Volumes 9 and 10 contain descriptions of Casanova's first visits to England, Prussia, Russia, and Poland. In all these countries he gained access to the Courts. Frederick the Great of Prussia and Catherine the Great of Russia join the roster of potentates entertained and charmed by the adventurer. Though beginning to age, and ruing it, Casanova still manages to exert a powerful attraction on women. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Literary Criticism | European - General - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 97070304 |
| Series: History of My Life |
| Physical Information: 1.86" H x 5.07" W x 8.01" (1.84 lbs) 856 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Volumes 9 and 10 contain descriptions of Casanova's first visits to England, Prussia, Russia, and Poland. In all these countries he gained access to the Courts. Frederick the Great of Prussia and Catherine the Great of Russia join the roster of potentates entertained and charmed by the adventurer. Though beginning to age, and ruing it, Casanova still manages to exert a powerful attraction on women. Because every previous edition of Casanova's Memoirs had been abridged to suppress the author's political and religious views and tame his vivid, often racy, style, the literary world considered it a major event when Willard R. Trask's translation of the complete original text was published in six double volumes between 1966 and 1971. Trask's award-winning translation now appears in paperback for the first time. |