{"product_id":"history-of-my-life-volumes-9-and-10-paperback","title":"History of My Life: Volumes 9 and 10 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGiacomo Chevalier de Seingalt Casanova\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eWillard R. Trask\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAward-winning translation of the complete memoirs of Casanova available for the first time in paperback.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolumes 9 and 10 contain descriptions of Casanova's first visits to England, Prussia, Russia, and Poland. In all these countries he gained access to the Courts. Frederick the Great of Prussia and Catherine the Great of Russia join the roster of potentates entertained and charmed by the adventurer. Though beginning to age, and ruing it, Casanova still manages to exert a powerful attraction on women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause every previous edition of Casanova's \u003ci\u003eMemoirs\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eGiacomo Casanova \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Venice in 1725. His parents, both actors, wanted him to become a priest, but their hopes were dashed when, at sixteen, he was expelled from seminary for immoral misconduct. Probably best-known for his reputation as a womanizer, Casanova was in turn a secretary, a soldier in the Venetian army, a preacher, an alchemist, a gambler, a violinist, a lottery director, and a spy. He translated Homer's \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e into Italian and collaborated with Da Ponte on the libretto for Mozart's \u003ci\u003eDon Giovanni\u003c\/i\u003e. He retired in 1785 to the castle of a friend--Count Waldstein of Bohemia--in order to write his memoirs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 856\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.86 x 8.01 x 5.07 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 22, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47578018251005,"sku":"9780801856662","price":97.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/UFpkOuI-wi9780801856662.webp?v=1779796572","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/history-of-my-life-volumes-9-and-10-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}