FROM THE PUBLISHER

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 and Swinburne to Nietzsche, Dostoyevksy, and Kafka -- is indisputable. This volume contains the only authentic and complete American edition of his most famous work, Justine; Philosophy in the Bedroom, a major novel that presents the clearest summation of his political philosophy;....

FROM THE CRITICS

Robert Lowry

"Shines a perverse and revealing spotlight on the entire era of the French Revolution....An important and elucidating book." -- Chicago Sun-Times

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

"The supreme value of this testamony lies in its ability to disturb us. It forces us to reexamine fairly the basic problems which haunts our age in different forms: the true relation between man and man." — Simone de Beauvoir