
The Story of My Life, Volume 1
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Narrated by:
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Peter Wickham
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By:
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Giacomo Casanova
The Story of My Life is the explosive and exhilarating autobiography by the infamous libertine Giacomo Casanova. Intense and scandalous, Casanova's extraordinary adventures take the listener on an incredible voyage across 18th-century Europe - from France to Russia, Poland to Spain and Turkey to Germany, with Venice at their heart.
He falls madly in love, has wild flings and delirious orgies, and encounters some of the most brilliant figures of his time, including Catherine the Great, Louis XV and Benjamin Franklin. He holds a verbal dual with Voltaire, a pistol duel with a Polish noble, and finds himself hauled before the court multiple times, including in London, where the judge in question turns out to be none other than Henry Fielding (The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling). His appetite for life is voracious; for him, a life lived close to the precipice is the only life worth living.
The book is divided into six sections. Volume One contains the first two sections: "Venetian Years" and "To Paris and Prison''. Translation by Arthur Machen
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Amazing
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Great storytelling
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Don't miss it! Listen to all three.
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It is not particularly steamy stuff, unless you like your smut arty and verbose. Lot of polished and mannered coquetry, some of it by Casanova rather than his conquests. His love life seems devoid of any deep or lasting feeling on his part (aside from his florid protestations) and his adventures in the flesh trade are, surprisingly, some of the more tedious parts of the book, although they probably read differently when written.
Autobiography as looong picaresque novel
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Couldn't stop listening
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Such a great story teller
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Could not put this book down.
I felt as if I were present there (probably as a fly on the wall) watching this Cassanova story in real life.
Brilliant narration by Peter Wickham
The most brilliant narration of Cassanova
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Speak of the time
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For example, a few pages goes through an intrigue with sonnets and stanza, and he is hired to write some stanzas in reply. pretending to be the husband, but he writes them so that the lady will know the true author. Things unravel in an unexpected way. A typical novelist would have dedicated fifty pages to this, included all the poetry, but Casanova sticks purely to the parts that are fascinating. So just for that an utterly captivating fifteen minutes.
"Life is only a succession of misfortunes."
The narrator is wonderful as he tells the long tale.
Extraordinarily interesting
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Nice narration
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