| History of My Life: Volumes 3 and 4 Revised Edition Contributor(s): Casanova, Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt (Author), Trask, Willard R. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0801856639 ISBN-13: 9780801856631 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $49.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1997 Annotation: "Trask has written a version in an English fully contemporary yet remarkably Italian in sensibility. With admirable restraint and refinement, he has conveyed the zest and sensuous delight of the original." -- National Book Award Citation Volumes 3 and 4 offer some of the most extraordinary episodes in Casanova's extraordinary life, including his liaison with the nun M. M., and his flight from the State Inquisitor's prison -- each in its own way a feat of singular dash and daring. |
| 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: 1.69" H x 5.1" W x 8.03" (1.65 lbs) 728 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Volumes 3 and 4 offer some of the most extraordinary episodes in Casanova's extraordinary life, including his liaison with the nun M. M., and his flight from the State Inquisitor's prison--each in its own way a feat of singular dash and daring. 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. |