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Casanova
... all who might come appropriately attired – she had recently spent more than fifteen thousand roubles on a masquerade in St Petersburg's Baum Park when her yearly income before she had become tsarina had amounted to thirty thousand .
"Contains material originally published in magazine form as Casanova: Acedia #5-8"--Indicia.
"The world's most dangerous men cannot remember who they are or how they came to be. One of them is Casanova Quinn. The other is his only friend, sole benefactor, and the head of an empire of corruption in Los Angeles.
By Eisner Award-winning writer MATT FRACTION (SEX CRIMINALS, ODY-C, SATELLITE SAM) and with art by international superstar FaBIO MOON (Two Brothers, Daytripper), this volume also features exclusive back-up stories written by Pulitzer Prize ...
This is a biographical book.
A Letter from Pauline and the Avenging Parrot.
We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public.
Today, “Casanova” is a synonym for “great lover,” yet the real story of this remarkable figure is little known.
Casanova, the Venetian who lived most of his life in exile from his beloved city and created his own myth - which in turn is a reflection of the nature of the city itself - is the subject of this masterly biographical essay by Stefan Zweig.
Coffee was just brought in at that moment, and she asked him to take it with us. Before sweetening his cup, she enquired whether he liked his coffee very sweet. "Your taste, madam," answered the hunchback, gallantly, "is sure to be mine ...
When they had eaten, Jarba shaved his employer by the light of an oil lamp outside the Turk's Head coffee house on the Strand. Then Casanova, in that mood of egalitarianism good champagne occasionally provoked in him, took the razor, ...
Casanova's Venice was at peace through the eighteenth century, as was much of Europe. His travels were interrupted ... Perhaps only London, with its direct routes to the East Indies, took to the bustling coffee craze faster than Venice.
For more than 200 years, Giacomo Casanova has been infamous as the archetypal elegant libertine. He gained considerable fortune by living on just his wits, luck and charm, but this...
Rome, and the Actor's Punishment.
Rome, and the Actor's Punishment.
Offers an unconventional view of Casanova as a benevolent lover of women, an ardent believer in the Enlightment, who grew from a sickly Venetian infant, abandoned by his actress mother, to become a spirited voluptuary
This is a new release of the original 1923 edition.
He didn't chase me. He never needed to, because he knew I'd come back. He was right. Death brought me home to him. Brett Walker. Drop dead gorgeous and filthy-mouthed with a smile that turns saints to sinners. A casanova to his core.