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Flirtatiously billed as "the story Casanova didn't dare to tell," Romance actually has no basis in the 18th Century swoonster's Memoirs. In place of truth, Author Aldington offers learned period sets (descriptions of settecento fortune telling, bills of fare, gambling), plenty of escapes and japes, ructions and seductions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hammock Reading | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

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