Casanova and His Time
Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
Published: July 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781410207531
Subjects: Biography: historical; Historical - General; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography
First sentence: THE history, or rather the histories, of that brilliant illusionist, the Comte de Saint-Germain, are tempting to the ingenious mythographist; and, in fact, Mr. Andrew Lang, in a penetrating and legitimately ironic study, has successfully sought to set forth the pure elements and the precise significance of what may be called a veritable historic myth.