The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Volume 6 (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): Spanish Passions

by Jacques Casanova, Arthur Machen (Translator)

Overview

In the sixth and final volume of Casanova’s Memoirs, “Spanish Passions,” Casanova, now with a bad reputation throughout the rest of Europe, heads to Spain, but does not find what he is looking for. This book, and the entire collection, present Casanova’s life of womanizing and gambling, his imprisonment and escape, his experience of travel, luxury, and loss.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411456686
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	04/12/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	734
File size:	651 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.