Oeuvres du Marquis de Sade

Adorned with gripping cover art by Man Ray and translated by renowned scholar

Dr. Paul J. Gillette, this dramatic collection of de Sade writings includes

"Justine," "Juliette," "120 Days of Sodom," "Philosophy In The Bedroom" and

many works often scattered among "pastiche" versions of de Sades oeuvre.

Free of the author's repetitions, polemics and syntactically complex 18th

century phrases, this edition captures the drama of de Sade's forays into

human sexuality including such practices as voyeurism, fetishism, and, most

famously, sadism. Vilified by critics in the 1800s as "Monstrous… depraved… An

odious book by an even more odious man," de Sades depiction of his personal

adventures has been studied and enjoyed by readers in light of the 20th and

21st centuries.

Readers will also discover a mind as free as de Sades adventures were

uninhibited, for he discusses natural evolution 25 years before Darwin's

birth; postulates the existence of the unconscious mind a century before

Sigmund Freud; and probes social mores decades before the work of Margaret

Mead. He also espouses political ideas that were put into practice by such

diverse figures as Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler and Fidel Castro.

Born into French nobility in 1740, Marquis de Sade continues to open minds to

new human experience more than 250 years later in this dramatic new release

from Holloway House Publishing.