Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, & Other Writings

The biography, the philosophy, and some of the most influential works of the infamous French writer who shocked the world with his erotic novel, Justine .   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, Dostoyevsky and Kafka—is ind