The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt (Complete Set of Six Volumes)
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)
[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.]
CONTENTS
Casanova at Dux, an Unpublished Chapter of History, by Arthur Symons
Translator’s Preface
Author’s Preface
Volume 1. Venetian Years
Episode 1. Childhood
Episode 2. Cleric in Naples
Episode 3. Military Career
Episode 4. Return to Venice
Episode 5. Milan and Mantua
Volume 2. To Paris and Prison
Episode 6. Paris
Episode 7. Venice
Episode 8. Convent Affairs
Episode 9. The False Nun
Episode 10. Under the Leads
Volume 3. The Eternal Quest
Episode 11. Paris and Holland
Episode 12. Return to Paris
Episode 13. Holland and Germany
Episode 14. Switzerland
Episode 15. With Voltaire
Volume 4. Adventures in the South
Episode 16. Depart Switzerland
Episode 17. Return to Italy: Genoa--Tuscany--Rome
Episode 18. Return to Naples: Rome--Naples--Bologna
Episode 19. Back again to Paris
Episode 20. Milan
Volume 5. In London and Moscow
Episode 21. South of France
Episode 22. To London
Episode 23. The English
Episode 24. Flight from London to Berlin
Episode 25. Russia and Poland
Volume 6. Spanish Passions
Episode 26. Spain
Episode 27. Expelled from Spain
Episode 28. Return to Rome
Episode 29. Florence to Trieste
Appendix and Supplement: Old Age and Death of Casanova
Part The First -- Venice 1774-1782
Part The Second -- Vienna-Paris
Part The Third -- Dux -- 1786-1798
The 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.
And 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…)
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[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.]
CONTENTS
Casanova at Dux, an Unpublished Chapter of History, by Arthur Symons
Translator’s Preface
Author’s Preface
Volume 1. Venetian Years
Episode 1. Childhood
Episode 2. Cleric in Naples
Episode 3. Military Career
Episode 4. Return to Venice
Episode 5. Milan and Mantua
Volume 2. To Paris and Prison
Episode 6. Paris
Episode 7. Venice
Episode 8. Convent Affairs
Episode 9. The False Nun
Episode 10. Under the Leads
Volume 3. The Eternal Quest
Episode 11. Paris and Holland
Episode 12. Return to Paris
Episode 13. Holland and Germany
Episode 14. Switzerland
Episode 15. With Voltaire
Volume 4. Adventures in the South
Episode 16. Depart Switzerland
Episode 17. Return to Italy: Genoa--Tuscany--Rome
Episode 18. Return to Naples: Rome--Naples--Bologna
Episode 19. Back again to Paris
Episode 20. Milan
Volume 5. In London and Moscow
Episode 21. South of France
Episode 22. To London
Episode 23. The English
Episode 24. Flight from London to Berlin
Episode 25. Russia and Poland
Volume 6. Spanish Passions
Episode 26. Spain
Episode 27. Expelled from Spain
Episode 28. Return to Rome
Episode 29. Florence to Trieste
Appendix and Supplement: Old Age and Death of Casanova
Part The First -- Venice 1774-1782
Part The Second -- Vienna-Paris
Part The Third -- Dux -- 1786-1798
The 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.
And 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…)
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt (Complete Set of Six Volumes)
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)
[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.]
CONTENTS
Casanova at Dux, an Unpublished Chapter of History, by Arthur Symons
Translator’s Preface
Author’s Preface
Volume 1. Venetian Years
Episode 1. Childhood
Episode 2. Cleric in Naples
Episode 3. Military Career
Episode 4. Return to Venice
Episode 5. Milan and Mantua
Volume 2. To Paris and Prison
Episode 6. Paris
Episode 7. Venice
Episode 8. Convent Affairs
Episode 9. The False Nun
Episode 10. Under the Leads
Volume 3. The Eternal Quest
Episode 11. Paris and Holland
Episode 12. Return to Paris
Episode 13. Holland and Germany
Episode 14. Switzerland
Episode 15. With Voltaire
Volume 4. Adventures in the South
Episode 16. Depart Switzerland
Episode 17. Return to Italy: Genoa--Tuscany--Rome
Episode 18. Return to Naples: Rome--Naples--Bologna
Episode 19. Back again to Paris
Episode 20. Milan
Volume 5. In London and Moscow
Episode 21. South of France
Episode 22. To London
Episode 23. The English
Episode 24. Flight from London to Berlin
Episode 25. Russia and Poland
Volume 6. Spanish Passions
Episode 26. Spain
Episode 27. Expelled from Spain
Episode 28. Return to Rome
Episode 29. Florence to Trieste
Appendix and Supplement: Old Age and Death of Casanova
Part The First -- Venice 1774-1782
Part The Second -- Vienna-Paris
Part The Third -- Dux -- 1786-1798
The 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.
And 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…)
[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.]
CONTENTS
Casanova at Dux, an Unpublished Chapter of History, by Arthur Symons
Translator’s Preface
Author’s Preface
Volume 1. Venetian Years
Episode 1. Childhood
Episode 2. Cleric in Naples
Episode 3. Military Career
Episode 4. Return to Venice
Episode 5. Milan and Mantua
Volume 2. To Paris and Prison
Episode 6. Paris
Episode 7. Venice
Episode 8. Convent Affairs
Episode 9. The False Nun
Episode 10. Under the Leads
Volume 3. The Eternal Quest
Episode 11. Paris and Holland
Episode 12. Return to Paris
Episode 13. Holland and Germany
Episode 14. Switzerland
Episode 15. With Voltaire
Volume 4. Adventures in the South
Episode 16. Depart Switzerland
Episode 17. Return to Italy: Genoa--Tuscany--Rome
Episode 18. Return to Naples: Rome--Naples--Bologna
Episode 19. Back again to Paris
Episode 20. Milan
Volume 5. In London and Moscow
Episode 21. South of France
Episode 22. To London
Episode 23. The English
Episode 24. Flight from London to Berlin
Episode 25. Russia and Poland
Volume 6. Spanish Passions
Episode 26. Spain
Episode 27. Expelled from Spain
Episode 28. Return to Rome
Episode 29. Florence to Trieste
Appendix and Supplement: Old Age and Death of Casanova
Part The First -- Venice 1774-1782
Part The Second -- Vienna-Paris
Part The Third -- Dux -- 1786-1798
The 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.
And 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…)
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| BN ID: | 2940014177603 |
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| Publisher: | Denise Henry |
| Publication date: | 03/30/2012 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 3000 |
| File size: | 3 MB |
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