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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... Read Full Overview

This volume contains Philosophy in the Bedroom, a major novel that presents the clearest summation of his political philosophy; Eug?nie de Franval, a novella widely considered to be a masterpiece of eighteenth-century French literature; and the only authentic and complete American... Read Full Overview

This volume contains Philosophy in the Bedroom, a major novel that presents the clearest summation of his political philosophy; Eug?nie de Franval, a novella widely considered to be a masterpiece of eighteenth-century French literature; and the only authentic and complete American... Read Full Overview