The Marquis de Sade, vilified by respectable society from his own time through ours, apotheosized by Apollinaire as "the freest spirit that has yet existed," wrote The 120 Days of Sodom while imprisoned in the Bastille. An exhaustive catalogue of sexual aberrations and the first systematic exploration-a hundred years before Krafft-Ebing and Freud ...
A million-dollar television gameshow turns lethal when a contestant is found murdered. With so much money at stake, Nero Wolfe leaves his beloved armchair and joins sidekick Archie Goodwin in his search for the killer.
This volume contains Philosophy in the Bedroom, a major novel that presents the clearest summation of his political philosophy; Eugenie de Franval, a novella widely considered to be a masterpiece of eighteenth-century French literature; and the only authentic and complete American edition of his most famous work, Justine.
"An amazing sequence of imaginatively bizarre sexual adventures punctuated by philosophical and theological digression. Mlle. De Maupin, Lolita, Candy--all pale beside Juliette."--Library Journal
In the boudoir of a sequestered country house, a young virgin is ruthlessly schooled in evil. Indoctrinated by her amoral tutors in the ways of sexual perversion, fornication, murder, incest, atheism and complete self-gratification, she takes part with growing abandon in a series of violent erotic orgies which culminates with the torture of her ...
The Baron de Teroze has already successfully married off his eldest daughter to a colonel of the dragoons; now it is time for him to arrange his younger daughter's nuptials. A corrupt magistrate from Aix seems to him the ideal candidate, much to the disgust of the young Mademoiselle de Teroze, who is in love with another man. Vowing to rid the ...
Revered by Enlightenment and Victorian thinkers, de Sade was recognized as a founding father by the Surrealists, and holds a prominent place in the history of modernism and post-modernism. This selection of his early writings, some appearing in English translation for the first time, reveals the full range of his sobering moods and considerable ...
The secret journal which the Marquis de Sade worked hard at maintaining, even when ill and aging at the Charenton asylum in France, has been rediscovered and is now published in English for the first time. "The Ghosts of Sodom "offers a unique insight into the workings of the mind of this aristocratic sadist and literary revolutionary. Sade was 67 ...
Justine was an early work of the Marquis de Sade, written while imprisoned in the Bastille. It contains relatively little of the obscenity which characterized his later writing. Napoleon Bonaparte called Justine "the most abominable book ever engendered by the most depraved imagination." Bonaparte ordered the arrest of Sade who as a result was ...
A new translation, with innovative modern formatting of the most extreme book in the history of literature. In an atrocity bible that permanently curses, scars and negates history, The Marquis de Sade narrates the escalating sex-crimes of four libertines who barricade themselves in a remote castle for a four-month orgy in a masterpiece of ...
First published in Germany in 1886, Psychopathia Sexualis was extremely successful as both a classic reference volume for psychiatrists and as a new form of pornographic literature for the sexually transgressive and perverse. Printed in seven languages and twelve editions during the author's lifetime, it was an influence on such notable figures as ...
'Senneval, you see in me your sister, the girl you seduced at Nancy, the woman who murdered your son, the wife of your own father and the ignoble creature who sent your mother to the gallows...' Who but the Marquis de Sade would write, not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the cruel ...
The Marquis de Sade's first book is a dialogue account of Eugenie's education by two libertines. The girl is finally so well-trained, she quite happily watches the rape of her own mother. Actually, the title, is a comedy, and is generally considered de Sade's funniest work. The Olympia Press first published this book in 1953.
These stories, though tame compared with de Sade's usual graphic imagination, are nonetheless shocking in their candid descriptions of erotic goings-on, including a priest who teaches his students how to "become one" through intercourse, and a young wife who invites more characters than just her husband to bed.
Famous for the sexually explicit literary legacy he left behind, the Marquis de Sade, who died in an asylum in 1814, spent nearly half his life behind bars. The letters collected here are drawn from 13 years of correspondence with his wife, mother-in-law, and others, and display the paranoia, and indeed often the "insanity" that was cited as the ...
'Senneval, you see in me your sister, the girl you seduced at Nancy, the woman who murdered your son, the wife of your own father and the ignoble creature who sent your mother to the gallows...' Who but the Marquis de Sade would write, not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the cruel ...
Con Los infortunios de la virtud, su autor, que ya firmaba con el seudonimo de 'El marques de Sade', pretendio reflejar el mundo que le rodeaba, pero de una forma bucolica, como si quisiera ser considerado el 'Boccaccio frances'. Puede asegurarse que casi lo consiguio, debido a la gracia del estilo y a su habilidad para mostrar los riesgos que ...
If de Sade had submitted the original version of Justine to us (from prison) in 1791 we would have rejected it, because it is pure sadism, as is to be expected from the original 'sadist', even though it is wrapped up in philosophy. However, it is now freely available in English as a classic, and has been so for quite a while. This version is ...
De Sade's protagonist, Franval, is an atheist, a Libertine and amoral. When he marries a pious woman and fathers a daughter upon her, he is determined to educate his progeny to be 'free'. The ultimate proof of his daughter's unfettered liberty? That she become his lover.
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