The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Volume 5 (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): In London and Moscow

by Jacques Casanova, Arthur Machen (Translator)

Overview

Volume five of Casanova’s six-volume Memoirs, “In London and Moscow,” recounts more of his many exciting love affairs (which lead to disease), and his time in England among the “eccentric”—attempting to sell his lottery idea once again, without success.  Casanova goes on to Russia with his plan, but is expelled after dueling.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411456679
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	04/12/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	656
File size:	585 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Jacques Casanova (1725-1798) was a Venetian author and adventurer. World-famous as a seducer of women, Casanova also socialized with popes, royalty, and such great minds as Voltaire and Mozart. Educated in Padua, he lived in many other places, including Constantinople, Prague, Switzerland, France, Germany, England, Russia, Austria, Belgium, and Spain. Casanova finished his days in Bohemia as the librarian to Count Joseph Karl von Waldstein.

Arthur Machen (1863-1947), born Arthur Llewelyn Jones, was a Welsh author of Gothic-revival fantasy and horror stories which mixed fright with sex and decadence, and influenced other horror writers like H. P. Lovecraft. His “The Great God Pan” (1890) was deemed “Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language” by Stephen King.