VIRTUE

Παρουσίαση

Herman and the noble and proud Ernestine, two young lovers, find themselves confronted with a pair of libertines who will stop at nothing to satisfy their desires. For Count Oxtiern, villainous and dissolute, and his accomplice Madame Scholtz, a widow of lusty temperament, no lie, no treachery is beneath them in their quest for sexual fulfilment. But does crime really never pay? Or can virtue vanquish vice?
The Marquis de Sade's oft-overlooked novella Ernestine, or the Swedish Tale, published alongside the play he wrote after it, Count Oxtiern, or the Consequences of Libertinage, demonstrates his profound moral and social principles, and sets this elegant critique of class prejudice apart from being a mere pornographic episode. (From the publisher)