History of My Life Volumes 5 & 6

By Giacomo Casanova

Book Overview

Award-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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801856647
• ISBN13: 9780801856648
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 688 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.1" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher