Author of "Jonathan Swift: His Life & His World" and National Book Critics Circle Award winner Damrosch explores the bonhomie and cultural contribution of a group of friends who regularly drank and ate together in the late 1700s,...

A fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch “Fully succeeds in communicating that ‘vivid presentness,’ that ‘joyful eagerness’ for life, which is what keeps us reading...