num_pages: 753
description: 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 -- from Baudelaire and Swinburne to Nietzsche, Dostoyevksy, and Kafka -- is indisputable. This volume contains the only authentic and complete American edition of his most famous work, Justine; Philosophy in the Bedroom, a major novel that presents the clearest summation of his political philosophy;....
language: English
title: Justine, Philosophy In the Bedroom and Other Writings
titlecomplete: Justine, Philosophy In the Bedroom and Other Writings
characters: Eugenie, Dolmance
genres: Classics, France, 18th Century, Philosophy, Novels, Literature, Erotica, French Literature, Sexuality, Fiction
ratings_count: 3679
places: France
publisher: Grove Press, Inc.