Casanova
Actor, Spy, Lover, Priest
$31.38
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2009
Summary
Giacomo Casanova was one of the most beguiling and controversial individuals of his or any age. Braggart or perfect lover? Conman or genius? He made and lost fortunes, founded state lotteries, wrote forty-two books and 3,600 pages of memoirs recording the tastes and smells of the years before the French Revolution - as well, of course, as his affairs and sexual encounters with dozens of women and a handful of men. His energy was dazzling.
Historian Ian Kelly draws on previously unpubl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340922156 |
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| ISBN-10: | 034092215X |
| Author: | Ian Kelly |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2009 |
| Weight: | 306g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 137mm x 28mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“The thing is to dazzle,’ wrote Casanova. In this enthralling book he dazzles once again, and so, too, does his biographer.’
A bedazzling jewel of sophisticated pleasures, the best book yet on the world’s greatest lover. - Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard Magazine
enthralling … It is hard to conceive of a juicier, more informative account of social and sexual mores of 18th century Europe. - Daily Mailexhilarating … he has managed to make this story feel so fresh again. - Guardian ‘The thing is to dazzle,’ wrote Casanova. In this enthralling book he dazzles once again, and so, too, does his biographer. - Mail on SundayElegant and scrupulously researched, with an admirable feeling for the age - Spectatorsober, thoughtful and affectionate new biography - Financial TimesMagisterial, utterly gripping … a vivid evocation of Georgian London. - Philip Hoare, IndependentIn Ian Kelly [Casanova] has at last found his Boswell … a great blast of a book, packed with energy and information, marinated in sympathy and understanding, and rippling with enthusiasm right down to the final footnote. - Sunday TelegraphAbout The Author
Ian Kelly
Ian Kelly is an actor, screenwriter and journalist, writing for The Times, Telegraph, Observer and TLS. His film credits include Howard’s End, Richard Attenborough’s In Love and War and Dennis Potter’s Cold Lazarus.
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