The Marquis de Sade: A Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780674003927)

Neil Schaeffer presents here a wholly original, compellingly human portrait of the "divine Marquis," the enigmatic legend whose name is synonymous with brutal perversion and cruelty. Against a magnificently embroidered backdrop of eighteenth-century France, he shows us Sade's incredible life of sexual appetite, adherence to Enlightenment principles, imprisonment, scandal, and above all inexhaustible imagination. Based on a decade of research and utilizing work never before published in English, The Marquis de Sade is a definitive work that confronts nearly two hundred years of myth to reveal a Promethean figure of astonishing complexity.

Author: Neil Schaeffer
ISBN-10: 0674003926
ISBN-13: 9780674003927
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2000
Pages: 577
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.76lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.20w x 1.49d