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Casanova was in his fifty-third year. Though no longer driven by the lust of adventure that had spurred him in his youth, he was still hunted athwart the world, hunted now by a restlessness due to the approach of old age. His yearning for Venice, the city of his birth, grew so intense that, like a wounded bird slowly circling downwards in its death flight, he began to move in ever-narrowing circles. Again and again, during the last ten years of his exile, he had implored the Supreme Council for leave to return home. Erstwhile, in the drafting of these petitions - a work in which he was a past master - a defiant, wilful spirit seemed to have guided his pen; at times even he appeared to take a grim delight in his forwardness. But of late his requests had been couched in humble, beseeching words which displayed, ever more plainly, the ache of homesickness and genuine repentance.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Anthologies (non-poetry)

• Full title: Casanova's Homecoming
• Author: Arthur Schnitzler
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 132
• EAN: 9781421821726
• ISBN: 9781421821726
• ID: 08412276
• Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Weight: 177 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 8 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. August 2006

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