Casanova: 309 books

I Make a Mistake and Manucci Becomes My Mortal Foe— His Vengeance— I

Walking on thin ice: on Rainy Lake, in the northern reaches of Minnesota, it’s more than a saying. And for Owen Jensen, nineteen and suddenly responsible for keeping his mother and five brothers alive, the ice is thin indeed.Ice-Out returns to the frigid and often brutal Prohibition-era borderland...

What a strange and unexplained power certain words exercise upon the soul! I, who the evening before so bravely fortified myself with my innocence and courage, by the word tribunal was turned to a stone, with merely the faculty of passive obedience left to me.

M. de Voltaire; My Discussions with That Great Man— Ariosto— The Duc de

A book of confessions penned without reticence and without penitence; a record of forty years of occult charlatanism; a collection of tales of successful imposture, of bonnes fortunes, of marvellous escapes, of transcendent audacity, told with the humour of Smollett and the delicate wit of Voltaire.

The palaces and marble stairs of old Venice are no longer desolate, but thronged with scarlet-robed senators, prisoners with the doom of the Ten upon their heads cross the Bridge of Sighs, at dead of night the nun slips out of the convent gate to the dark canal where a gondola is waiting, we assist at...

He who opens these wonderful pages is as one who sits in a theatre and looks across the gloom, not on a stage-play, but on another and a vanished world. The curtain draws up, and suddenly a hundred and fifty years are rolled away, and in bright light stands out before us the whole life of the past; the...

** Edition enrichie (Introduction, notes, chronologie, index, glossaire et bibliographie)** Les mémoires de Casanova ne sont pas seulement, comme on le croit trop souvent, le catalogue de ses conquêtes, fussent-elles évoquées avec verve. Leur auteur, certes, est un aventurier, mais c’est...

Établi d'après le manuscrit et accompagné d'un appareil critique entièrement renouvelé, ce troisième et dernier volume de l'Histoire de ma vie contient les tomes VIII à X, couvrant les années 1763-1774. Casanova voyage à travers l'Europe (Angleterre, Russie et Pologne, Espagne...) avant de...

Globalization and economic restructuring have decimated formal jobs in developing countries, pushing many women into informal employment such as direct selling of cosmetics, perfume, and other personal care products as a way to "make up the difference" between household income and expenses....

In a sweeping reconsideration of the relation between religion and modernity, Jose Casanova surveys the roles that religions may play in the public sphere of modern societies. During the 1980s, religious traditions around the world, from Islamic fundamentalism to Catholic liberation theology,...

Leave Bologna a Happy Man— The Captain Parts from Us in Reggio, where I

My Stay at Riga— Campioni St. Heleine— D'Asagon— Arrival of the

In this fascinating new exploration of Samuel Beckett’s work, Pascale Casanova argues that Beckett’s reputation rests on a pervasive misreading of his oeuvre, which neglects entirely the literary revolution he instigated. Reintroducing the historical into the heart of this body of work, Casanova...