History of My Life (Everyman's Library)
by Giacomo Casanova
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Author: Giacomo CasanovaTranslator: Willard R. Trask
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-02-06
ISBN: 0307265579
Number of pages: 1512
Publisher: Everyman's Library
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Book Review: Loads of Fun (but not for the whole family)
Summary: 5 Stars
The autobiography of Cassanova is a wonderful story, the Willard Trask translation brings the adventures of histories most famous ladies man to life in VERY explicit detail. Not for the faint of heart, but a great read
Be warned though: there are other translations that are just horrible, avoid the Penguin version at all costs. Also, it's worth knowing that the book is unbelievably long, the origional version had 10 volumes and the one for sale here only includes 1 and 2, the entire set put together is several thousand pages.
Still if you are going to read Cassanova, THIS is the version to get, if you want to finish the story you'll just have to buy 4 more books with the rest of his volumes.
Summary of History of My Life (Everyman's Library)
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)The name of Giacomo Casanova, Chevalier de Seingalt (1725-98), is now synonymous with amorous exploits, and there are plenty of these, vividly narrated, in his memoirs. But Casanova was not just an energetic lover. In his time he was a diplomat, businessman, trainee priest, traveler, prisoner, magician, confidence man, gambler, professional entertainer, and charlatan. He financed business projects, organized lotteries, wrote opera libretti, and dabbled in high politics. Above all he was an autobiographer of enduring brilliance and subtlety who left behind him what is probably the most remarkable confession ever written.
Casanova explored to the full all the possibilities eighteenth-century Venice offered by way of love and profit before being imprisoned, escaping from jail, and fleeing from the city to begin travels that took him across Europe. In Moscow and London, Berlin and Constantinople, he met the famous men and women of his time?Catherine the Great, Voltaire, Louis XV, Rousseau?and recorded his encounters for the memoirs he wrote in retirement at the end of his life.
History of My Life is by turns touching, thrilling, wonderfully comic, and quite irresistible. The present edition, which includes approximately one third of Casanova's enormous (and unfinished) book, contains all his major adventures and all his greatest affairs of the heart.
This translation of Giacomo Casanova's epic memoir was first published in a multi-volume set more than 25 years ago, but this new paperback edition makes Casanova's story accessible to the general reader. Thankfully, the great Venetian adventurer's memoirs can finally be read as they were written, without the bowdlerizing that plagued them for two centuries. While Casanova is most notorious for his womanizing, his memoirs are also remarkable as they give a top-to-bottom view of European life in the 18th century. Johns Hopkins University Press has done a handsome job, packaging the entire story in six double volumes. And, in keeping with the spirit of the author, it's worth mentioning that a 17th-century painting of lounging nude woman spans across the spines of the set when they're arranged on the shelf.
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