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History of My Life : Introduction by John Julius Norwich by Giacomo Casanova (2007, Hardcover)

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History of My Life : Introduction by John Julius Norwich by Giacomo Casanova (2007, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100307265579

ISBN-139780307265579

eBay Product ID (ePID)58260318

Product Key Features

Original LanguageItalian

Book TitleHistory of My Life : Introduction by John Julius Norwich

Number of Pages1512 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicEurope / General, Historical

Publication Year2007

GenreBiography & Autobiography, History

AuthorGiacomo Casanova

Book SeriesEveryman's Library Classics Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height2 in

Item Weight37.9 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2006-046525

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal940.2/53

SynopsisThe 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.

LC Classification NumberD285.8.C4A3 2006