Sade
Subtitle: A Biography
Contributors: Arthur Goldhammer (Translator)
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
Published: August 1993
Language: eng
Number of pages: 626
ISBN-13: 9780374202989
First sentence: What stood in the way of my success was that I was always too much the libertine to bide my time in an antechamber, too poor to bribe my servants to serve my interests, and too proud to flatter the favorites, the ministers, and the mistress.