The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Volume 4 (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): Adventures in the South

by Jacques Casanova, Arthur Machen (Translator)

Overview

Casanova’s life story is one of the most reliable sources of how Europeans lived in the eighteenth century. This is the fourth of his six-volume Memoirs, subtitled “Adventures in the South.”  Presented in this book are Casanova’s travels around Europe—and the love affairs, parties, passions, dangers, and disappointments that he finds.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411456662
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	04/12/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	680
File size:	595 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

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.