Index of the Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Casanova

Casanova, Giacomo, 1725-1798Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Index of the Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Casanova by Giacomo CasanovaAuthor: Casanova, Giacomo, 1725-1798,Language: English, Class: D: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere, Release Date: Aug 14, 2018

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This is an index compiled for the Project Gutenberg edition of Casanova's memoirs; it is not the memoir text itself but a retrieval tool for entering the text. Casanova's memoirs are known for their great length, numerous characters and interwoven places and events; readers who read straight through easily lose the thread, and the value of the index lies in helping locate names, places and key episodes. For readers studying eighteenth-century European social customs, travel accounts or the memoir genre, this index can be used as a reference work alongside the main text to improve lookup efficiency. Note that an index is not suited to continuous reading; the reading experience depends on whether the user already has a clear retrieval need.

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About the author

Casanova, Giacomo, 1725-1798 Author

Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) is known to the world for his autobiographical memoirs, The Story of My Life. This database holds forty of his works, most of them complete or partial editions of those memoirs, including volumes on his Venetian years and on his time in Paris and London, as well as one volume recounting his encounters with Voltaire. Written in the first person, these texts describe his travels across Europe, his social life and his romantic experiences in a candid, lively style rich in detail, and they are valued both as personal confession and as a record of eighteenth-century social customs. The memoirs have long been regarded as a distinctive work of autobiographical literature, offering readers a vivid picture of urban life and social culture in contemporary Europe. Because public information is limited, details of his biography cannot be firmly established; this entry therefore presents his writing solely on the basis of the works themselves, which are commonly classified as inspirational and personal-growth reading.