Sade
Subtitle: A Biography (A Harvest Book)
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: July 1994
Language: eng
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780156001113
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.