| History of My Life: Volumes 11 and 12 Revised Edition Contributor(s): Casanova, Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt (Author), Trask, Willard R. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0801856671 ISBN-13: 9780801856679 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $49.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1997 Annotation: "Now at last we can enjoy the wonderful History of My Life... as if we were reading an entirely new book... Few more extraordinary men have ever lived; an no memoirist gives us a more vivid impression of the social background of his period." -- Peter Quennell The last two volumes of Casanova's account of his extraordinary life include the story of his imprisonment in Buen Retiro, his trip to Madrid and his affair with Doa Ignacia, his journey to Barcelona and his detention in the Tower, his encounter with Lord Baltimore, and his serious illness in Aix-en-Provence when he is taken care of by a mysterious woman who turns out to the servant of one of his first loves, Henriette. |
| 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: 2.02" H x 4.96" W x 7.99" (1.86 lbs) 864 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The last two volumes of Casanova's account of his extraordinary life include the story of his imprisonment in Buen Retiro, his trip to Madrid and his affair with Do a Ignacia, his journey to Barcelona and his detention in the Tower, his encounter with Lord Baltimore, and his serious illness in Aix-en-Provence when he is taken care of by a mysterious woman who turns out to the servant of one of his first loves, Henriette. 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. |