<div>&ldquo;An amazing sequence of imaginatively bizarre sexual adventures punctuated by philosophical and theological digression.&rdquo; &mdash;Library Journal &ldquo;&rsquo;Twas at Panthemont we were brought up, Justine and I, there that we received our education.&rdquo; Marquis de Sade&rsquo;s 1797 masterpiece contrasts the erotic adventures of the title character, an amoral nymphomaniac murderer who is nevertheless successful and happy, with her sister Justine, a virtuous woman who encounters nothing but despair and abuse. &ldquo;The Marquis is a missionary. He has written a new religion. Juliette is one of the holy books.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review &ldquo;It is not necessary to take the Marquis seriously as a philosopher of total freedom, as some do, in order to relish the imagination and talent that went into the gilding nuggets of naughtiness contained here.&rdquo; &mdash;Playboy</div>

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Juliette

<div>The definitive compilation of texts from &ldquo;a great, horrifying, but also vastly illuminating figure . . . one of the most radical minds in Western history&rdquo; (Newsweek). The Marquis de Sade, vilified by respectable society from his own time through ours, apotheosized by Apollinaire as &ldquo;the freest spirit that has yet existed,&rdquo; wrote The 120 Days of Sodom while imprisoned in the Bastille. An exhaustive catalogue of sexual aberrations and the first systematic exploration&mdash;a hundred years before Krafft-Ebing and Freud&mdash;of the psychology of sex, it is considered Sade&rsquo;s crowning achievement and the cornerstone of his thought. Lost after the storming of the Bastille in 1789, it was later retrieved but remained unpublished until 1904. In addition to The 120 Days, this volume includes Sade&rsquo;s &ldquo;Reflections on the Novel,&rdquo; his play Oxtiern, and his novella Ernestine. The selections are introduced by Simone de Beauvoir&rsquo;s landmark essay &ldquo;Must We Burn Sade?&rdquo; and Pierre Klossowski&rsquo;s provocative &ldquo;Nature as Destructive Principle.&rdquo; &ldquo;Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.&rdquo; &mdash;Marquis de Sade&rsquo;s last will and testament</div>

The 120 Days of Sodom & Other Writings

<div>The biography, the philosophy, and some of the most influential works of the infamous French writer who shocked the world with his erotic novel, Justine. No other writer has so scandalized proper society as the Marquis de Sade, but despite the deliberate destruction of over three-quarters of his work, Sade remains a major figure in the history of ideas. His influence on some of the greatest minds of the last century&mdash;from Baudelaire and Swinburne to Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky and Kafka&mdash;is indisputable. This volume contains Philosophy in the Bedroom, a major novel that presents the clearest summation of his political philosophy; Eug&eacute;nie 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. This literary portrait of Sade is completed by one of his earliest philosophical efforts, Dialogue between a Priest and a Dying Man, a selection of his letters, a fifty-page chronology of his life, two important essays on Sade, and a bibliography of his work. &ldquo;[Sade] remains a great, horrifying, but also vastly illuminating figure.&rdquo; &mdash;Newsweek &ldquo;Justine is the most abominable book ever engendered by the most depraved imagination.&rdquo; &mdash;Napoleon Bonaparte &ldquo;Shines a perverse and revealing spotlight on the entire era of the French Revolution . . . An important and elucidating book.&rdquo; &mdash;Robert Lowry, Chicago Sun-Times</div>

Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, & Other Writings

<div>Originally published in 1800, Crimes of Passion contained eleven stories and an essay on the novel. The present book contains three abridged tales. In &ldquo;Florville and Courval&rdquo; we find not only a reinterpretation and elaboration of the Oedipus myth, but an unforgettable illustration of Donatien Alphonse Fran&ccedil;ois de Sade&rsquo;s artistic creed. He was not simply an eccentric aristocrat with artistic pretensions, but a pathological rebel against the Age of Enlightenment, and a prisoner of the Prince of Darkness. The historical tale of &ldquo;Juliette and Raunai&rdquo; is sentimental and melodramatic. In it, virtue triumphs, but not before the lovers have run the gamut of human suffering. &ldquo;Miss Henriette Stralson&rdquo; has a contemporary setting and ranks above his historical tales. In it, virtue wins only a pyrrhic victory.</div>

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Juliette

The 120 Days of Sodom & Other Writings

Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, & Other Writings

Crimes of Passion

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Crimes of Passion

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