''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 ......
An international bestseller and winner of the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary award, The Ogre is a masterful tale of innocence, perversion, and obsession. It follows the passage of strange, gentle Abel Tiffauges from submissive schoolboy to ''ogre'' of the Nazi school at the castle of Kaltenborn, taking us deeper into the dark ......
Friday, winner of the 1967 Grand Prix du Roman of the Académie Française, is a sly, enchanting retelling of the legend of Robinson Crusoe by the man the New Yorker calls ''France's best and probably best-known writer.'' Cast away on a tropical island, Michel Tournier's god-fearing Crusoe sets out to tame it, to remake it in the image of the ......
''Whether you're a farmer, hunter, fisherman, environmentalist, or one who can take or leave nature, passages in Turner's book will make you smile, laugh, and want to cry . . . Episodes of his boyhood will remind you of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. His book is worthy of a place on the shelf with them.''--Virginian Pilot Chesapeake Boyhood is an ......
