num_pages: 567
description: Neil Schaeffer presents here a wholly original, compellingly human portrait of the divine Marquis, the enigmatic legend whose name is synonymous with brutal perversion and cruelty. Against a magnificently embroidered backdrop of eighteenth-century France, he shows us Sade's incredible life of sexual appetite, adherence to Enlightenment principles, imprisonment, scandal, and above all inexhaustible imagination. Based on a decade of research and utilizing work never before published in English, The Marquis de Sade is a definitive work that confronts nearly two hundred years of myth to reveal a Promethean figure of astonishing complexity.
language: English
title: The Marquis de Sade: A Life
titlecomplete: The Marquis de Sade: A Life
genres: Biography, Classics, France, History, Sexuality, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 139
publisher: Knopf