Adventures In The South: The Memoirs Of Jacques Casanova De Seingalt; Author: Casanova, Jacques; Paperback

Author: Casanova, Jacques
Paperback
Published: September 2002
International Law & Taxation
ISBN: 1589634152
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The Memoirs of Casanova, though they have enjoyed the popularity of a bad reputation, have never had justice done to them by serious students of literature, of life, and of history. Havelock Ellis wrote that there are few more delightful books in the world but his essay stands alone as an attempt to take Casanova seriously, to show him in his relation to his time, and in his relation to human problems. And yet these Memoirs are perhaps the most valuable document which we possess on the society of the eighteenth century; they are the history of a unique life, a unique personality, one of the greatest of autobiographies; as a record of adventures, they are more entertaining than Gil Blas, or Monte Cristo, or any of the imaginary travels, and escapes, and masquerades in life, whic