Casanova

Casanova

by Andrew Miller

3.50 out of 5 (1 ratings)

Format:
Paperback 
Pages:
320 
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division 
Publication Date:
15 April 1999 
Category:
Modern & Contemporary 
ISBN:
9780340682104 

Description

Giacomo Casanova arrives in England in the summer of 1763 at the age of thirty-eight, seeking a respite from his restless travels and liaisons. But the lure of company proves too hard to resist and the dazzlingly pretty face of young Marie Charpillon even harder. Casanova's pursuit of this elusive bewitcher drives him from exhilaration to despair and to attempt to reinvent himself in the roles of labourer, writer and country squire. Based on a little-known episode in Casanova's life, this is a scintillating, poignant, often comic portrait of a far more complex figure than legend suggests and of the decadent society in which he operated.

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  • Casanova has been done, again and again but Andrew Miller's novel still is very worthwhile. Miller has an excellent touch for historical settings and expert handling of that tricky dialogue. The pace and feel of the book is modern but without any sense of losing 18th century verisimilitude. In the novel Casanova arrives in England at the age of thirty-eight looking to take a rest from his adventures but he is soon beguiled by the beautiful Charpillon. I really shouldn't have told you that because it sounds so prosaic and formulaic and yet this book is anything but.

    3.50 out of 5

    dylanwolf

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