The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Volume 2 (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): To Paris and Prison

by Jacques Casanova, Arthur Machen (Translator)

Overview

“To Paris and Prison” is the second volume of the seductive Casanova’s memoirs. Here is his deep and devoted relationship with Henriette; after she leaves, however, “Bravois lures me back to my Former way of living.” Casanova travels to Paris, Vienna, and Venice, leaving a trail of scandal in his wake—for this, he is arrested. However, he uses the help of a renegade priest to escape, and heads back to Paris to establish the lottery.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411456648
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	04/12/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	736
File size:	911 KB

About the Author

Jacques Casanova (1725-1798) was a Venetian author and adventurer. World-famous as a seducer of women, Casanova also socialized with popes, royalty, and such great minds as Voltaire and Mozart. Educated in Padua, he lived in many other places, including Constantinople, Prague, Switzerland, France, Germany, England, Russia, Austria, Belgium, and Spain. Casanova finished his days in Bohemia as the librarian to Count Joseph Karl von Waldstein.

Arthur Machen (1863-1947), born Arthur Llewelyn Jones, was a Welsh author of Gothic-revival fantasy and horror stories which mixed fright with sex and decadence, and influenced other horror writers like H. P. Lovecraft. His “The Great God Pan” (1890) was deemed “Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language” by Stephen King.