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The Curse of the Marquis de Sade

Author : Joel Warner
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0593135695
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book The Curse of the Marquis de Sade written by Joel Warner and published by Crown. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • The captivating, deeply reported true story of how one of the most notorious novels ever written—Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom—landed at the heart of one of the biggest scams in modern literary history. “Reading The Curse of the Marquis de Sade, with the Marquis, the sabotage of rare manuscript sales, and a massive Ponzi scheme at its center, felt like a twisty waterslide shooting through a sleazy and bizarre landscape. This book is wild.”—Adam McKay, Academy Award–winning filmmaker Described as both “one of the most important novels ever written” and “the gospel of evil,” 120 Days of Sodom was written by the Marquis de Sade, a notorious eighteenth-century aristocrat who waged a campaign of mayhem and debauchery across France, evaded execution, and inspired the word “sadism,” which came to mean receiving pleasure from pain. Despite all his crimes, Sade considered this work to be his greatest transgression. The original manuscript of 120 Days of Sodom, a tiny scroll penned in the bowels of the Bastille in Paris, would embark on a centuries-spanning odyssey across Europe, passing from nineteenth-century banned book collectors to pioneering sex researchers to avant-garde artists before being hidden away from Nazi book burnings. In 2014, the world heralded its return to France when the scroll was purchased for millions by Gérard Lhéritier, the self-made son of a plumber who had used his savvy business skills to upend France’s renowned rare-book market. But the sale opened the door to vendettas by the government, feuds among antiquarian booksellers, manuscript sales derailed by sabotage, a record-breaking lottery jackpot, and allegations of a decade-long billion-euro con, the specifics of which, if true, would make the scroll part of France’s largest-ever Ponzi scheme. Told with gripping reporting and flush with deceit and scandal, The Curse of the Marquis de Sade weaves together the sweeping odyssey of 120 Days of Sodom and the spectacular rise and fall of Lhéritier, once the “king of manuscripts” and now known to many as the Bernie Madoff of France. At its center is an urgent question for all those who cherish the written word: As the age of handwriting comes to an end, what do we owe the original texts left behind?

The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales

Author : Marquis de Sade
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0192836951
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales written by Marquis de Sade and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revered by Enlightenment and Victorian thinkers, de Sade was recognized as a founding father by the Surrealists, and holds a prominent place in the history of modernism and post-modernism. This selection of his early writings, some appearing in English translation for the first time, revealsthe full range of his sobering moods and considerable talents.

The Marquis de Sade: A Very Short Introduction

Author : John (Department of French Literature and Culture Phillips, London Metropolitan University)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192804693
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Book Synopsis The Marquis de Sade: A Very Short Introduction by : John (Department of French Literature and Culture Phillips, London Metropolitan University)

Download or read book The Marquis de Sade: A Very Short Introduction written by John (Department of French Literature and Culture Phillips, London Metropolitan University) and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-28 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussing the 'real' Marquis de Sade from his mythical and demonic reputation, John Phillips examines Sade's life and work his libertine novels, his championing of atheism, and his uniqueness in bringing the body and sex back into philosophy.

The Life and Ideas of the Marquis de Sade

Author : Geoffrey Gorer
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447483383
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Ideas of the Marquis de Sade written by Geoffrey Gorer and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-01-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic book is on the life and ideas of the Marquis De Sade, the notorious sexual libertine and controversial writer, and will make an excellent addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in the subject. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Marquis de Sade

Author : marquis de Sade
Publisher : New York : Grove Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 950 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Marquis de Sade written by marquis de Sade and published by New York : Grove Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Marquis de Sade, vilified by respectable society from his own time through ours, apotheosized by Apollinaire as "the freest spirit that has yet existed," wrote The 120 Days of Sodom while imprisoned in the Bastille. An exhaustive catalogue of sexual aberrations and the first systematic exploration-a hundred years before Krafft-Ebing and Freud-of the psychology of sex, it is considered Sade's crowning achievement and the cornerstone of his thought. Lost after the storming of the Bastille in 1789, it was later retrieved but remained unpublished until 1935. In addition to The 120 Days, this volume includes Sade's "Reflections on the Novel," his play Oxtiem, and his novella Ernestine. The selections are introduced by Simone de Beauvoir's landmark essay "Must We Burn Sade?" and Pierre Klossowski's provocative "Nature as Destructive Principle." "Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change."-From Sade's Last Will and Testament." -- from http://www.amazon.com (April 19, 2011).

The Life and Ideas of the Marquis de Sade

Author : Geoffrey d/ Gorer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Ideas of the Marquis de Sade written by Geoffrey d/ Gorer and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales

Author : Marquis de Sade
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0191605883
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales written by Marquis de Sade and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 1992-06-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name of the Marquis de Sade is synonymous with the blackest corners of the human soul, a byword for all that is foulest in human conduct. In his bleak, claustrophobic universe, there is no God, no morality, no human affection, and no hope. Power is given to the strong, and the strong are murderers, torturers, and tyrants. No quarter is given; compassion is the virtue of the weak. Yet Sade was a man of savage intelligence who carried the philosophy of the French Enlightenment to its logical extreme. His writings effectively release the individual from all social and moral constraint: for many, Sade is the Great Libertarian. The Victorians considered him `Divine' and Apollinaire called him `the freest spirit'; the Surrealists recognised him as a founding father, and he is a key figure in the history of modernism and post-modernism. With Freud and Marx, Sade has been one of the crucial shaping influences on this century, and reactions to him continue to be extreme. But he has always been more talked about than read. This selection of his early writings, some making their first appearance in this new translation, reveals the full range of Sade's sobering moods and considerable talents. - ;Revered by Enlightenment and Victorian thinkers, de Sade was recognized as a founding father by the Surrealists, and holds a prominent place in the history of modernism and post-modernism. This selection of his early writings, some appearing in English translation for the first time, reveals the full range of his sobering moods and considerable talents. - ;The Misfortunes of Virtue; Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man; The Successful Ruse; The Pimp Well Served; The Windbags of Provence; An Inexplicable Affair; The Prude; --Eacute--;mile de Tourville; Augustine de Villeblanche; The Law of Talion; The Self-Made Cuckold; The Husband who Said Mass; The Lady of the Manor of Longeville; The Confidence Men -

Marquis de Sade

Author : Iwan Bloch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781494015671
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Marquis de Sade written by Iwan Bloch and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1948 edition.

The Marquis de Sade's Adelaide of Brunswick

Author : Marquis de Sade
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359389430
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book The Marquis de Sade's Adelaide of Brunswick written by Marquis de Sade and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Marquis de Sade is one of the most infamous men in all of history. His name, in fact, is where the word "sadism" is derived from. An infamous and perverse criminal, Sade was imprisoned for much of his life, where he had ample time to hone his talent for writing scandalous and mind-blowing erotic novels such as "Justine", "Juliette," and his magnum opus, "120 Days of Sodom". This book, "Adelaide of Brunswick," is one of Sade's historical novels, found among his papers after his death. It fully demonstrates the range and ability of a man whom history has vilified, but who was inarguably a philosopher, dramatist and author of the first magnitude.

The Marquis de Sade

Author : Neil Schaeffer
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Marquis de Sade written by Neil Schaeffer and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1999 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wholly original, compellingly human portrait of the "divine Marquis," the enigmatic legend whose name is synonymous with brutal perversion and desirous cruelty. Against a magnificently embroidered backdrop of eighteenth-century France, Neil Schaeffer reconstructs the almost incredible adventures of Donatien-Alphonse-Francois de Sade. When he was a young man, married off against his wishes to a middle-class heiress, his insatiable sexual appetites and disdain for all forms of convention drew him into a series of scandals, first with prostitutes and then with his sister-in-law. His enraged, social-climbing mother-in-law conspired with the authorities, and the result was Sade's thirteen-year imprisonment without trial. Later, freed by the Revolution, the brilliantly protean Marquis became a revolutionary leader himself and then narrowly escaped the guillotine. But with the publication of the novels he wrote behind bars, books denounced as lewd and blasphemous, he was again imprisoned. Under Napoleon, Sade spent almost twelve years in an insane asylum, where he died at the age of seventy-four following a final dalliance with a teenage girl. Schaeffer reveals the surprisingly unsadistic Sade: his capacity for deep romantic love, his passionate adherence to Enlightenment principles, his inexhaustible charm, his delusional paranoia. And through a dazzling reading of his novels, including the notorious masterpiece 120 Days of Sodom, he argues powerfully for Sade as one of the great literary imaginations of the eighteenth century, one who maintained a lifelong, ultimately self-destructive argument against the limitations of authority and morality. Based on a decade of research, TheMarquis de Sade is a definitive work that shatters nearly two hundred years of myth to reveal an irresistible Promethean figure of astonishing complexity.

The Gothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade

Author : marquis de Sade
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780720612516
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book The Gothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade written by marquis de Sade and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Library Journal: The eight stories gathered here are among the notorious author's most tame and approachable works, but they still contain some of his signature touches.

The Marquis De Sade

Author : Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book The Marquis De Sade written by Simone de Beauvoir and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plays of the Marquis de Sade: Count Oxtiern. The bedroom. The madness of misfortune. The haunted tower. The shyster

Author : marquis de Sade
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Plays of the Marquis de Sade: Count Oxtiern. The bedroom. The madness of misfortune. The haunted tower. The shyster written by marquis de Sade and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Marquis de Sade: His Life and Works

Author : Iwan Bloch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781436714020
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Marquis de Sade: His Life and Works written by Iwan Bloch and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

The Marquis de Sade Reader

Author : marquis de Sade
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book The Marquis de Sade Reader written by marquis de Sade and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Marquis de Sade spent more than half his life in prison, which gave him the excuse to take his revenge on society through evocations of sexual cruelty. Excluded from normal life, he developed an extremist vision of the world through stories, dialogues, and historical novels. Included here are extracts from his major fiction, including Les Cents Vingt Journees de Sodome, Justine, and the compulsively vicious Juliette. Other titles by Margaret Crosland, available from Dufour, include Sade's Wife and de Sade's Crimes of Love.

The Marquis de Sade

Author : Robert Anthony Laws
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780946650767
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Marquis de Sade written by Robert Anthony Laws and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Minski The Cannibal

Author : The Marquis De Sade
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1908694297
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Minski The Cannibal written by The Marquis De Sade and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taken from Juliette, the Marquis de Sade's epic of vice, the episode of MINSKI THE CANNIBAL is one of the most horrific and depraved in all of the author's canon. Whilst venturing in remote mountains, Juliette and her companions are accosted by Minski, a giant who devours human flesh, and taken to his castle. There they witness obscene rites of sexual carnage, played out in a subterranean slaughterhouse for human cattle. This special ebook edition of MINSKI THE CANNIBAL also includes an illuminating essay by Sade scholar Maurice Heine - newly translated into English for the first time - on Sade as progenitor of the gothic novel.