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Ecstasy

by Ryû Murakami

The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings

The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings

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)

Story of O

by Pauline Reage

The classic erotic novel, THE STORY OF O relates the love of a beautiful Parisian fashion photographer for Rene. As part of that intense love, she demands debasement and severe sexual and pychological tests. It is a unique work not to be missed.

Philosophie dans le boudoir. (English)

by Joachim Neugroschel

This most joyous of de Sade’s works follows three aristocrats as they indoctrinate Eugénie de Mistival in "the principles of the most outrageous libertinism."

Philosophy in the Boudoir (Velvet Ser. ; Vol. 1))

Philosophy in the Boudoir (Velvet Ser. ; Vol. 1))

by Marquis de Sade

This new Creation Books edition couples this erotic masterpiece with The Lusts of the Libertines, a document taken from 120 Days of Sodom, in which de Sade's depraved imagination is given free reign to catalogue 447 of the wildest depravities and atrocities he can conceive, from incest and coprophilia through to mutilation, torture and bloody murder. Originally intended to be fleshed out later, their reduction to... (more)

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