The Marquise de Gange by The Marquis de Sade Paperback Book 9780198848288

Loosely based on one of the most notorious crimes of the seventeenth century The Marquise de Gange by The Marquis de Sade is a neglected classic Although a departure from his earlier pornographic and libertine works the novel reads with the same subversive tension of an author plotting against virtue in his distress