The Story of My Life by Giacomo Casanova

He falls madly in love, has wild flings and delirious orgies, and encounters some of the most brilliant figures of his time, including Catherine the Great, Louis XV and Benjamin Franklin. Intense and scandalous, Casanova’s extraordinary adventures take the listener on an incredible voyage across 18th-century Europe – from France to Russia, Poland to Spain and Turkey to Germany, with Venice at their heart. The Story of My Life is the explosive and exhilarating autobiography by the infamous libertine Giacomo Casanova. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.Audio Sample Giacomo Casanova The Story of My Life, Volume 1 The Penguin Classics edition of Casanovaas 'The Story of My Life' features a brilliant translation by Stephen Sartarelli and Sophie Hawkes and provides readers with the most famous episodes as well as the overall shape of Casanovaas monumental memoir in one beguiling, unique volume. Coming to the big screen this JanuaryaBuena Vistaas 'Casanova,' starring Heath Ledger and Sienna Miller Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, Good Samaritan, spy, swashbuckler, self-made gentleman, entrepreneur, poet, translator, philosopher, and general bon vivant, Giacomo Casanova was not only the most notorious lover the Western world has known but also astoryteller of the first order.

In these selections, made from authoritative French texts, are all the highlights of Casanova's life: his youth in Venice as a precocious ecclesiastic carousing and dabbling in the occult imprisonment and thrilling escape travels and encounters with major literary figures and world leaders and, of course, many amorous conquests, ranging from noblewomen to nuns to cobblers' daughters, all of them willing partners in the adventures of his life. Since he lived a life richer and stranger than most fictions, the tale of his won adventures is his most compelling story, but his memoir remained - at 12 volumes - unfinished at the time of his death in 1798. Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, Good Samaritan, spy, swashbuckler, self-made gentlemen, entrepreneur, wit, poet, translator, philosopher, and general bonvivant, Giacomo Casanova was not only the most notorious lover the Western world has known, but also a storyteller of the first order.

The Story of My Life by Giacomo Casanova