SADE (MARQUIS DE SADE)

(P/B) THE CRIMES OF LOVE
"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 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 t...
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BETRAYAL
Two stories with a common theme. In The Mystified Magistrate, the Baron de T?roze 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 T?roze, who is in love with another man. Vowing to rid the beautiful marchioness of her odious old husband, her lover, sister and brother-in-law conspire in a series of hilarious manipulations th...
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(P/B) GOTHIC TALES

(P/B) SADE: SELECTED LETTERS

(P/B) ΤΗΕ CRIMES OF LOVE

(P/B) THE GHOSTS OF SODOM - THE CHARENTON JOURNALS

(P/B) PHILOSOPHY IN THE BOUDOIR

INCEST
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. Beginning as a delightfully wicked romp through libertine intemperance, De Sade's story soon turns into a macabre record of extreme dissipation. Incest is a challenging and breathtaking masterpiece from the archetypal literary Libertine. (From the publisher)...
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