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History of My Life, May 1997
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History of My Life, May 1997
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History of My Life, May 1997
Trade Size (reprint)
History of My Life, May 1997
Trade Size (reprint)
History of My Life, May 1997
Trade Size (reprint)
History of My Life, May 1997
Trade Size (reprint)

HISTORY OF MY LIFE
By: Giacomo Casanova

Early Travels and family

Volumes I and II
Johns Hopkins University Press
May 1997
Featuring: Casanova
630 pages
ISBN: 0801856620
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Historical | Non-Fiction Memoir

"These are what Edmund Wilson has rightly called the most interesting memoirs ever written. Indeed, Rousseau, Stendhal, even Augustine, must take their proper place, a half step behind this greatest of storytellers." -- Paul Zweig, Nation

In volumes 1 and 2, Casanova tells the story of his family, his first loves, and his early travels. With the death of his grandmother, he is sent to a seminary -- but is soon expelled. He is briefly imprisoned in the fortress of Sant' Andrea. After wandering from Naples to Rome in search of a patron, he enters the service of Cardinal Acquaviva.

About this edition: 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.

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