The Memoirs Of Casanova (Five-Volume Set)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: vol iv missing. vol ii - moderate annotations in grey lead.
Few lives in the annals of European history have matched the sheer audacity and breadth of Giacomo Casanova's, and The Memoirs of Casanova: Venetian Years presents the first and most foundational chapter of his legendary autobiography. Set against the glittering, labyrinthine canals of 18th-century Venice, this volume chronicles the young Casanova's earliest escapades — his education, his first loves, his brushes with the law, and his dazzling social ascent through the salons and courts of the Serenissima. It is a world of powdered wigs, secret assignations, and aristocratic intrigue, rendered with the unguarded frankness of a man who feared neither God nor reputation. This is one volume in a handsome multi-volume set — also including Paris and Prison, The Eternal Quest, In London and Moscow, and Spanish Passions — that together constitute one of Western literature's most remarkable firsthand accounts of Enlightenment-era Europe. Casanova writes with a sharp wit and an almost journalistic eye for social detail, capturing not merely his own conquests but the manners, politics, and philosophical currents of an entire age. Published by Elek/Putnam in a beautifully illustrated edition, this set is as much a collector's treasure as a literary one — and once opened, it is nearly impossible to put down.
Author: Giacomo Casanova; translated by Arthur Machen.
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: vol iv missing. vol ii - moderate annotations in grey lead.
Few lives in the annals of European history have matched the sheer audacity and breadth of Giacomo Casanova's, and The Memoirs of Casanova: Venetian Years presents the first and most foundational chapter of his legendary autobiography. Set against the glittering, labyrinthine canals of 18th-century Venice, this volume chronicles the young Casanova's earliest escapades — his education, his first loves, his brushes with the law, and his dazzling social ascent through the salons and courts of the Serenissima. It is a world of powdered wigs, secret assignations, and aristocratic intrigue, rendered with the unguarded frankness of a man who feared neither God nor reputation. This is one volume in a handsome multi-volume set — also including Paris and Prison, The Eternal Quest, In London and Moscow, and Spanish Passions — that together constitute one of Western literature's most remarkable firsthand accounts of Enlightenment-era Europe. Casanova writes with a sharp wit and an almost journalistic eye for social detail, capturing not merely his own conquests but the manners, politics, and philosophical currents of an entire age. Published by Elek/Putnam in a beautifully illustrated edition, this set is as much a collector's treasure as a literary one — and once opened, it is nearly impossible to put down.