The Marquis De Sade
Subtitle: A Life
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: December 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 577
ISBN-13: 9780674003927
Subjects: Biography: general; Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; France; Biography & Autobiography / Literary
Description: A biography of the 18th century soldier and writer who gave his name to sadism. The book portrays Sade as a political rabble-rouser whose 11-year sentence in a mental asylum was for more than just claiming sexual deviation was natural.