Casanova Papers
Author: Kate Zarrelli
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781487429522
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Author: Kate Zarrelli
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781487429522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Angela M. Sims
Publisher:
Published: 2023-04
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781739117382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEllie Murphy gets a job teaching English in Venice where she meets Professor Piero Contarini, sexy, enigmatic and descended from old Venetian family. She helps him curate a new edition of the memoirs of the famous seducer, Giacomo Casanova.
Author: Carl MacDougall
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 360
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carl MacDougall
Publisher: Random House (UK)
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780749395247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Paris, on an unimportant newspaper assignment, a Glasgow journalist struggling to piece his life together finds what he thinks is another beginning. As the narrative moves across time and location, what is the significance of the Casanova papers and what echoes do they contain?
Author: Susan Swan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2008-12-13
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1596919183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA dazzlingly imagined novel that embraces two centuries, two young women, a long-lost journal, and the mystery behind the legendary Casanova's last great love.
Author: T. L. Swan
Publisher:
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMy favorite hobby is infuriating Elliot Miles. Just the sight of my boss's handsome face triggers my sarcasm. God knows how he earns his Casanova reputation--if a million women want him with his personality, what the heck am I doing wrong? Disgusted with my love life, I join a dating app under a fake name. I start chatting to a man named Edgar. He's not my type and lives on the other side of the world, but we hit off a friendship, laugh and confide in each other. But lately things are getting weird at work. Elliot's being...attentive. His eyes linger a little longer than they should, and there's a heat behind them that I haven't felt before. And then, in the shock of all shocks, he tells me that my vulnerability is appealing. But when was I vulnerable? Horror dawns...Has my boss been reading my emails to Edgar? Damn it, why did I use my work email? Oh no, does he know what I really think of him? I'd rather die than ever admit it. Or, even worse: is it possible that the man I loathe in real life is the man I'm falling for online?
Author: Giacomo Casanova
Publisher:
Published: 1894
Total Pages: 538
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Andrei Codrescu
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2015-07-21
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1504015274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn erotic, comedic, and compulsively readable historical novel depicting the beguiling Giacomo Casanova as he looks back on a life of love and ribald adventure In Count Waldstein’s far-flung Bohemian castle, an aging Casanova spends his days as a librarian cataloging the count’s extensive collection of books. Or at least that’s what he’s supposed to be doing. Ever the storyteller, Casanova instead dedicates himself to his own writing, for which the young servant Laura Brock serves as an endlessly fascinated audience. He recounts to her his greatest escapades—from romances in a Venetian convent to the seduction of an entire harem to the triumphant amassing (and subsequent loss) of a fortune in Paris. Enlivened by the French Revolution and the liberating ideas of the Enlightenment, Casanova’s latest exploits prove he still possesses an intellectual vigor and insatiable curiosity. Even old age can’t keep this legendary libertine—who corresponded with Voltaire, discussed flight with Benjamin Franklin, and whose life and writings inspired artists as diverse as Mozart, Flaubert, Stendhal, and Hesse—from causing trouble. Rich with eighteenth-century European social, political, and religious history, Casanova in Bohemia is an energetic and erotic portrait of Western literature’s most beloved lothario, whose hedonism was matched by his creativity and wit.
Author: Stephen M. Stigler
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2022-10-06
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0226820793
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In 1994, historian Stephen Stigler placed a mail-order purchase for a rare bit of ephemera from a French bookstore: a lottery Almanac from 1834. It contained the winning numbers for the entire span of the French Loterie from 1758 onward, including details on prizes actually awarded-difficult data to come by-as well as hand-written notes by an early owner. Stigler was fascinated with what he saw about how the Loterie was carried out, who bought tickets, and what size bets they placed, and so in the decades that followed he amassed booklets, legal documents, advertising bills, notices, contracts, and tickets. His own collection and extensive additional research helped him piece together the Loterie's remarkable inner workings, as well as its implications for how we understand the history of risk more broadly. In the 1750s at the urging of famed philandering adventurer Giocomo Casanova (who had recently escaped from a Venetian prison by means of a sharpened iron, an accomplice, a rope of bed sheets, and a stolen gondola), the French state began to embrace risk in its approach to the Loterie. The prize amounts varied depending on the number of tickets bought, and the amount of the bet was determined by each individual bettor. The state could lose money on any individual lot but was statistically guaranteed it would come out on top in the long run. Stigler follows the Loterie from its curious inception to a 1776 expansion, to its interruption during the French Revolution (but only with the Terror of 1793), to its renewal in 1797 and further expansion, and finally to its suppression in 1836, examining throughout the wider question of how members of the public came to trust in new financial technologies and believe in their value"--
Author: Lisetta Lovett
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Published: 2021-06-09
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 1526779226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKForget the stereotype! Giacomo Casanova's (1725-1798) reputation as libertine has sadly eclipsed his talents as scholar, linguist, prolific writer and manqué doctor. Fortunately for us, he wrote his memoirs at the end of his life on the advice of his doctor to control his propensity to depression. Although these often have been harvested for information on political, cultural and social aspects of his time, the insights they give about medical practice and the lived experiences of illness have been largely neglected. This book addresses this deficiency through exploring in detail what Casanova wrote on a variety of conditions that include venereal disease and female complaints, duelling injuries, suicide, skin complaints and stroke and even piles. These descriptions provide alternately grim and amusing insights about public health measures, the doctor-patient relationship, medical etiquette and the dominant medical theories of the era. To help the reader understand the historical significance of the medical subjects covered, the author integrates throughout the book an extensive historical context drawn from contemporary sources of information and current history of medicine literature