The story of my life
Giacomo Casanova
Bok · Engelsk · 2005
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| Omfang | xxx, 532 sider
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| Opplysninger | Originally published: New York : Marsilio, 2000. - Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, Good Samaritan, spy, swashbuckler, self-made gentleman, entrepreneur, wit, poet, translator, philosopher and general bon vivant, Giacomo Casanova was not only the most notorious lover the Western world has ever known, but a storyteller of the first order. Since he lived a life richer and stranger than most fictions, the account of his own adventures is his most compelling tale, but his memoir remained - at twelve volumes - unfinished at the time of his death in 1798. In these selections, made form authoritative French, texts, are all the highlight of Casanova's life: his youth in Venice as a precocious ecclesiastic; carousing and dabbling in the occult; imprisonment and thrilling escape; encounters with major literary figures and world leaders; and, of course, many amorous conquests, ranging from noble women to nuns to cobblers' daughters, all of them willing partners in the adventures of his life. The first new translation since the 1960s, this edition provides readers with the most famous episodes as well as the overall shape of a monumental work
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| ISBN | 0-140-43915-3. - 978-0-140-43915-1
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