Casanova

the man who really loved women

1st Farrar, Straus and Giroux ed.

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today


Buy this book

Last edited by MARC Bot
July 12, 2024 | History

Casanova

the man who really loved women

1st Farrar, Straus and Giroux ed.

Between Casanova's time and ours stretch two centuries of ignorance and misunderstanding. This remarkable man has been thought of as a Don Juan of the salons, cold and indifferent to women, but in this new book Lydia Flem rediscovers him as he really was, an ardent man of the Enlightenment, a true friend and lover of women.

In Paris, Rome, Berlin, St. Petersburg, and London, this comedians' child could be found in aristocratic milieus or low dives, in convent alcoves, at gaming tables and in the libraries of the philosophes: Casanova was everywhere and knew everyone. A generous, spirited man, he gave of himself without stint, and men and women alike rejoiced in his company.

He was learned, amusing, helpful, wise - and something of a scoundrel, for in the class-bound European circles he moved in, he was always on the point of being "found out" as an impostor, a low-born nobody. He hated the snobbery but he loved his freedom.

Ms. Flem gives a deliciously entertaining account of Casanova's adventures with women young and old (sometimes mother and daughter), with friends both fierce and loyal, interspersing her own witty narrative with quotations of apt passages from Casanova's amazing memoirs - which he wrote when, slowed by old age and illness, he was exiled from Venice and living in a Bohemian castle.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
255

Buy this book

Previews available in: Russian English

Edition Availability
Cover of: Kazanova, ili voploshchennoe schastʹe︠
Kazanova, ili voploshchennoe schastʹe︠
1998, Feniks
in Russian
Cover of: Casanova
Casanova: The Man Who Really Loved Women
November 1998, Noonday Press
in English
Cover of: Casanova
Casanova: the man who really loved women
1997, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English - 1st Farrar, Straus and Giroux ed.
Cover of: Casanova
Casanova: The Man Who Really Loved Women
November 1997, Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
in English
Cover of: Casanova
Casanova: the man who really loved women
1997, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English - 1st Farrar, Straus and Giroux ed.
Cover of: Casanova, ou, L'exercise du bonheur
Casanova, ou, L'exercise du bonheur
1995, Seuil
in French

Add another edition?

Book Details


Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-248) and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
940.2/53/092, B
Library of Congress
D285.8.C4 F5913 1997, D285.8.C4F5913 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 255 p. ;
Number of pages
255

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL674487M
Internet Archive
casanovamanwhore0000flem
ISBN 10
0374119570
LCCN
97020644
OCLC/WorldCat
36954588
Library Thing
288001
Goodreads
1770623

Excerpts

In a castle in Bohemia, an exiled old man spends thirteen hours a day writing the history of his life.
added anonymously.

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON / OPDS | Wikipedia citation
July 12, 2024 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book
April 17, 2024 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
January 15, 2023 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
September 16, 2022 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user Imported from Scriblio MARC record