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The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings

The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings

by Marquis de Sade

This volume contains Philosophy in the Bedroom, a major novel that presents the clearest summation of his political philosophy; Eugénie 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.

Selections. (English.)

by Richard Seaver, Marquis de Sade

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-of the psychology of sex, it is considered Sade's crowning... (more)

JUSTINE OR THE MISFORTUNES OF VIRTUE

by Marquis de Sade

Cathedral of Vampires (Marquis de Sade)

by Mary Ann Mitchell

The Sadeian Woman : And the Ideology of Pornography

The Sadeian Woman : And the Ideology of Pornography

by Angela Carter

Sexuality is power. So says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer. His virtuous Justine, who keeps to the rules, is rewarded with rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploits her sexuality. With brilliance and wit, Angela Carter takes on these outrageous figments of de Sade's extreme imagination and transforms them into symbols of our time: The... (more)

In the Name of the Vampire (Marquis de Sade)

In the Name of the Vampire (Marquis de Sade)

by Mary Ann Mitchell

Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue

by Marquise de Sade

This work is the most celebrated of the novels of the Marquis de Sade. Execrated by de Sade's contemporaries, it is a novel of depth and psychological insight. It tells the tale of the virtuous Justine, who, forced to make her way in the world suffers frightful humiliations.

Sips of Blood

by Mary Ann Mitchell

The Marquis de Sade still lives as one of the undead, and rumors of his evil deeds don't begin to describe what the Marquis has become. His tastes remain the same, only more pronounced. And his desire for blood has become a hunger.

Hidden Faces

by Salvador Dali, Clan of Xymox

Dali's only novel. In richly visual language Dali describes the lives and loves of a group of aristocratic characters who, in their beauty, luxury, and extravagance, symbolize the decadent Europe of the 1930s. The story of the tangled lives of the protagonists, from the February riots of 1934 in Paris to the closing days of the war, is a brilliant vehicle for Dali's ideas, and an evocation of pre-war Europe.... (more)

Quenched

by Mary Ann Mitchell

An evil stalks the clubs and seedy hotels of San Francisco's shadowy underworld. It preys on the unfortunate, the outcasts, the misfits. It is an evil born of the eternal bloodlust of one of the undead, the infamous nobleman known to the ages as...the Marquis de Sade. He and his unholy offspring feed upon those who wont be missed, giving full vent to their dark desires and a thirst for blood that can never be... (more)

Ambrosial Flesh

by Mary Ann Mitchell

The 120 Days of Sodom

by Marquis de Sade

The 120 Days of Sodom is the most extreme book in the history of literature. The Marquis de Sade narrates the escalating sex-crimes of four libertines who barricade themselves in a remote castle with both male and female victims and accomplices for a four-month, precipitous orgy of sodomy, coprophagia and rape leading inexorably towards torture and human decimation. A masterpiece of black humour, pornographic to a... (more)

Die hundertzwanzig Tage von Sodom oder Die Schule der Ausschweifung.

Die hundertzwanzig Tage von Sodom oder Die Schule der Ausschweifung.

by D. A. F. Marquis de Sade

The Vampire De Sade (Marquis de Sade)

by Mary Ann Mitchell

Tainted Blood (Marquis de Sade)

by Mary Ann Mitchell

At Home With the Marquis De Sade : A Life

At Home With the Marquis De Sade : A Life

by Francine du Plessix Gray

A remarkable and unparalleled portrait of the Marquis de Sade and the two women who endured his peculiar genius Much has been written about the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), the flamboyant aristocrat whose years indulging in sexual aberrations inspired his celebrated works 120 Days of Sodom and Justine --and landed him in the Bastille. However, scant attention has been paid to the two women who were closest to... (more)

The Fan-Maker's Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

The Fan-Maker's Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Rikki Ducornet

"A fan is like the thighs of a woman: it opens and closes." And so begins this lush, historical novel--a mixture of imagination and conceit, passion and suspense. In a tense courtroom during the French Revolution, a young fan-maker, renowned all over Paris for her sensual and graphic objets d'art, is on trial because of her collaboration with the Marquis de Sade. Heads will roll unless the independent fan-maker,... (more)

The Crimes of Love (Oxford World's Classics)

The Crimes of Love (Oxford World's Classics)

by Margaret Crosland, David Coward

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 rewards for selfless love in his stories--tragedy, despair, and death the inevitable outcome. Sade's villains will stop at nothing to satisfy their depraved passions, and they in turn suffer under the thrall of love. This is the most complete selection from the... (more)

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of The Marquis de Sade (or Marat Sade)

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of The Marquis de Sade (or Marat Sade)

by Peter Weiss

This extraordinary play, which swept Europe before coming to America, is based on two historical truths: the infamous Marquis de Sade was confined in the lunatic asylum of Charenton, where he staged plays; and the revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed in a bathtub by Charlotte Corday at the height of the Terror during the French Revolution. But this play-within-a-play is not historical drama. Its thought is... (more)

Justine

by Marquis de Sade

-Justine- is a story of two sisters, Justine and Juliette who have been thrown out of an orphanage. Mainly the book is about the sufferings of Justine, the protagonist and her sister Juliette who benefits herself through dissipation. The truth of virtues is the other-way-round to her; it depicts the persistent battle between good and evil.

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