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Title: History of My Life (Volumes I & II) by Giacomo Casanova, Willard R. Trask ISBN: 0-8018-5662-0 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: May, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An Excellent & Informative Read
Comment: I have read the first 3 volumes and found it to be both entertaining and informative about the life of Casanova. You can hear Casanova speak as he tells his tales of all his adventures taking him to many places and what makes him tick. His love of women comes through in a very personal way by his descriptive manner.
Rating: 5
Summary: Captivating, thrilling, engaging
Comment: Some people have lives that are filled with a certain drama and adventure from start to finish. As a young teenager, Casanova is already thinking, engaging people much older than him in serious conversation, plotting and scheming, and even taking enemies to court!
People often ask if Casanova's stories are embellished. I don't think so; he's too good of a writer, and too smart, and gives too many specific details on the surrounding circumstances and historical events. He wrote twelve volumes of this stuff - if he were making it up he would have become bored long before getting that far. His account of his time on earth rings true from start to finish, and believe me when I say: it is the story of a fascinating life told by a man of outstanding writing ability and social genius.
Casanova will come across to many readers as very self-absorbed. However, he clearly has a deep fascination for his characters and all of the people he comes into contact with. As a child he already had an intellect superior to many of the adults around him. As a man he still viewed each new relationship and circumstance with the fascination of a kid at the carnival.
If you like romance, history, intrigue, drama, with a smart and smart ass young man at the centre of it all narrating for you, you'll love this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: A perfect edition for any shelf
Comment: Content aside, (which in itself is fascinating) Trask's fully unabridged translation of Casnova's autobiography is a marvellous effort. Combined with the splendid jacketing, all twelve volumes make this a delightful addition to the bookshelf.
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Title: The Story of My Life (Penguin Classics) by Giacomo Casanova, Stephen Sartarelli, Sophie Hawkes, Gilberto Pizzamiglio, Giovanni Giacomo Casanova ISBN: 0140439153 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Casanova: The Man Who Really Loved Women by Lydia Flem, Catherine Temerson ISBN: 0374525579 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene ISBN: 0142001198 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Seducer's Diary by Soren Kierkegaard ISBN: 0691017379 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 18 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene ISBN: 0140280197 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 05 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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