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History of My Life, vol. 5 and 6

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''These memoirs are compulsive reading . . . they are the work not only of a highly accomplished seducer but of a literary artist of the highest talents.''–J. H. Plumb, New York Times Book Review In volumes 5 and 6, Casanova brings his flight from the Inquisitor's prison in Venice to a happy conclusion. Exiled from Venice, he goes to Munich and Paris, where he establishes himself as a cabalist, makes a fortune in Holland, helps start the French State Lottery, goes on to Switzerland where he meets Voltaire.

""Trask expertly rendered this text into English in 1966, and his is the English version to read... Compulsively readable... Certainly, few books better convey the sheer, exuberant joy of being alive and young than these reminiscences.""

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