{"product_id":"2940014177603","title":"The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt (Complete Set of Six Volumes)","description":"The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete Set of Six Volumes (The Rare Unabridged London Edition of 1894 Translated by Arthur Machen to which Has Been Added the Chapters Discovered by Arthur Symons)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Transcriber’s Note: These memoires were not written for children, they may outrage readers also offended by Chaucer, La Fontaine, Rabelais and The Old Testament. D.W.]\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003eCasanova at Dux, an Unpublished Chapter of History, by Arthur Symons\u003cbr\u003eTranslator’s Preface\u003cbr\u003eAuthor’s Preface\u003cbr\u003eVolume 1. Venetian Years\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 1. Childhood\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 2. Cleric in Naples\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 3. Military Career\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 4. Return to Venice\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 5. Milan and Mantua\u003cbr\u003eVolume 2. To Paris and Prison\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 6. Paris\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 7. Venice\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 8. Convent Affairs\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 9. The False Nun\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 10. Under the Leads\u003cbr\u003eVolume 3. The Eternal Quest\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 11. Paris and Holland\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 12. Return to Paris\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 13. Holland and Germany\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 14. Switzerland\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 15. With Voltaire\u003cbr\u003eVolume 4. Adventures in the South\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 16. Depart Switzerland\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 17. Return to Italy: Genoa--Tuscany--Rome\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 18. Return to Naples: Rome--Naples--Bologna\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 19. Back again to Paris\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 20. Milan\u003cbr\u003eVolume 5. In London and Moscow\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 21. South of France\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 22. To London\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 23. The English\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 24. Flight from London to Berlin\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 25. Russia and Poland\u003cbr\u003eVolume 6. Spanish Passions\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 26. Spain\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 27. Expelled from Spain\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 28. Return to Rome\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 29. Florence to Trieste\u003cbr\u003eAppendix and Supplement: Old Age and Death of Casanova\u003cbr\u003ePart The First -- Venice 1774-1782\u003cbr\u003ePart The Second -- Vienna-Paris\u003cbr\u003ePart The Third -- Dux -- 1786-1798\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Memoirs of Casanova, though they have enjoyed the popularity of a bad reputation, have never had justice done to them by serious students of literature, of life, and of history. One English writer, indeed, Mr. Havelock Ellis, has realised that ‘there are few more delightful books in the world,’ and he has analysed them in an essay on Casanova, published in Affirmations, with extreme care and remarkable subtlety. But this essay stands alone, at all events in English, as an attempt to take Casanova seriously, to show him in his relation to his time, and in his relation to human problems. And yet these Memoirs are perhaps the most valuable document which we possess on the society of the eighteenth century; they are the history of a unique life, a unique personality, one of the greatest of autobiographies; as a record of adventures, they are more entertaining than Gil Blas, or Monte Cristo, or any of the imaginary travels, and escapes, and masquerades in life, which have been written in imitation of them. They tell the story of a man who loved life passionately for its own sake: one to whom woman was, indeed, the most important thing in the world, but to whom nothing in the world was indifferent. The bust which gives us the most lively notion of him shows us a great, vivid, intellectual face, full of fiery energy and calm resource, the face of a thinker and a fighter in one. A scholar, an adventurer, perhaps a Cabalist, a busy stirrer in politics, a gamester, one ‘born for the fairer sex,’ as he tells us, and born also to be a vagabond; this man, who is remembered now for his written account of his own life, was that rarest kind of autobiographer, one who did not live to write, but wrote because he had lived, and when he could live no longer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd his Memoirs take one all over Europe, giving sidelights, all the more valuable in being almost accidental, upon many of the affairs and people most interesting to us during two-thirds of the eighteenth century. (continued…)","brand":"Denise Henry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070468210928,"sku":"2940014177603","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014177603_p0.jpg?v=1763602318","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014177603","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}