History of My Life, Volumes 5-6Award-winning translation of the complete memoirs of Casanova available for the first time in paperback. 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 Paris, where he establishes himself as a cabalist, makes a fortune in Holland, helps start the French State Lottery, goes on to Switzerland where he meets Voltaire. Because every previous edition of Casanova's Memoirs 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. |
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... believe it , " I answered ; " but the profit they would draw from it themselves would be even greater ; despite that , they are in no hurry ; they have not sent for me , and in any case it is no longer my chief interest . " " " You will ...
... believe you can lack the necessary courage be- cause of a mistaken pity you may feel for my old car- cass . " " At these words I rose and I went to the window of her room , which gave onto the quay , and remained there for a quarter of ...
... believe it is ; for either the evils foretold can be avoided , and then the horoscope becomes puerile , or it is the voice of destiny , and then they are inevitable . Hence the Chevalier Farsetti was a fool if he thought he had proved ...