''These are what Edmund Wilson has rightly called the most interesting memoirs ever written. Indeed, Rousseau, Stendhal, even Augustine, must take their proper place, a half step behind this greatest of storytellers.''Paul Zweig, Nation In volumes 1 and 2, Casanova tells the story of his family, his first loves, and his early travels. With the ......
''Trask has written a version in an English fully contemporary yet remarkably Italian in sensibility. With admirable restraint and refinement, he has conveyed the zest and sensuous delight of the original.''National Book Award Citation Volumes 3 and 4 offer some of the most extraordinary episodes in Casanova's extraordinary life, including his ......
''These memoirs are compulsive reading . . . they are the work not only of a highly accomplished seducer but of a literary artist of the highest talents.''J. H. Plumb, New York Times Book Review In volumes 5 and 6, Casanova brings his flight from the Inquisitor's prison in Venice to a happy conclusion. Exiled from Venice, he goes to Munich and ......
''Trask's exemplary translation . . . makes the real Casanova accessible in English . . . as strange, as diverse, as compelling as fiction.''John Simon, Book Week In volumes 7 and 8, Casanova is now close to forty. His various manipulations of the credulous rich have made him rich in turn. His travels take him to France, Germany, Switzerland, and ......
''All that a life of this kind can contain Casanova put into his story. And how much of the world!the eighteenth century as you get it in no other book; society from top to bottom; Europe from England to Russia, a more brilliant variety of characters than you can find in any eighteenth-century novel.''Edmund Wilson Volumes 9 and 10 contain ......
''Now at last we can enjoy the wonderful History of My Life . . . as if we were reading an entirely new book . . . Few more extraordinary men have ever lived; an no memoirist gives us a more vivid impression of the social background of his period.''Peter Quennell The last two volumes of Casanova's account of his extraordinary life include the ......
Separated from her family by the Nazis, Gerty Spies was sent to the Czech camp known as Theresienstadt. Isolated from the outside world, surrounded by death, she retreated to her inner self to concentrate on human, cultural, and other values. This book presents her - sensitive and humorous, but never bitter - stories of the struggle for survival.
Features a selection of Hall's love letters to Evguenia Souline, a White Russian emigre with whom Hall fell in love in the summer of 1934. These letters detail Hall's growing obsession, the pain to her life partner Una Troubridge of this betrayal, and the poignant hopelessness of a happy resolution for any of the three women.
Imprisoned paraphiliac Ronald Keyes reveals the factors that contributed to his sadomasochistic tendencies and criminal life. Taunted and beaten into a state of erotic ecstasy by his dominatrix "Connie", Keyes became subservient to her wishes. In an act of ultimate capitulation, he accommodated Connie's need to achieve orgasm through crime.
