The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings, Paperback - Marquis De Sade

Reducere. The Marquis de Sade, vilified by respectable society from his own time through ours, apotheosized by Apollinaire as "the freest spirit that has yet...

Reducere. DescriptionThe 120 Days of Sodom, also known as the School of Libertinism, is described by the author as the most impure tale that has ever been to...

Reducere. The Marquis de Sade narrates the escalating sex-crimes of four libertines who barricade themselves into a remote castle with both male and female v...

DescriptionThe name of the Marquis de Sade is synonymous with the blackest corners of the human soul, a byword for all that is most foul in human c...

An amazing sequence of imaginatively bizarre sexual adventures punctuated by philosophical and theological digression. Mlle. De Maupin, Lolita, Can...

Reducere. An early work by the Marquis de Sade "Justine, Or, The Misfortunes of Virtue" was originally written during a two week period in 1787 while the aut...

Reducere. Set against the impending riptide of the French Revolution and composed while Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille, Aline and Valcour embodies the m...

Reducere. Set against the impending riptide of the French Revolution and composed while Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille, Aline and Valcour embodies the m...

Reducere. Considerada como su obra m s atrevida. 120 d as de Sodoma, adem s de un relato m rbido y perturbador, un manifiesto que desvela la corrupci n en la...

Presents essays on the giants of world literature that explore the links between literature, history and politics. This title discusses common them...

Who but the Marquis de Sade would write, not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the c...

Reducere. A comprehensive and insightful compilation of Benjamin Franklin's The Autobiography and other essays which offers an in-depth look into the life of...

With their call for "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity , " for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are ...

DescriptionThomas Paine is most famous for writing Common Sense, a pamphlet distributed during the American Revolution advocating for colonial Amer...

The only autobiography by a major Victorian novelist, Trollope's account offers a fascinating insight into his literary life and opinions. This edi...

Reducere. Together in one place, this is a collection of most important works of Bhagat Singh, the Indian communist revolutionary who was executed by the Bri...

Reducere. DescriptionNeil Schaeffer presents here a wholly original, compellingly human portrait of the "divine Marquis, " the enigmatic legend whose name is...

DescriptionPoetry. Fiction. Translated by Simon Schuchat and Ainsley Morse. With nearly 300 pages of prose and poetry, SOVIET TEXTS is the first re...

Franklin's writings span a long and distinguished career of literary, scientific, and political inquiry--the work of a man whose life lasted for ne...

Completely revised and edited with an introduction and notes by Vincent Carretta An exciting and often terrifying adventure story, as well as an im...

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born in Dublin. He is considered the foremost prose satirist in the English language, which stemmed from his critici...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James Allen"As a Man Thinketh" has long since been regarded as a classic. This short accessible work elucidates the power o...

'To open a book by David Jones is to walk in the ley lines of his dreaming, a dreaming offered to believer and non-believer alike.

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. ...

Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth centur...

DescriptionA byword for initiative and determination, A Message to Garcia recounts a soldier's unquestioning acceptance and fulfillment of his orde...

DescriptionA beautiful translation of one of the most-loved classics of Japanese literature. Bashō (1644-1694)--a great luminary of Asian literatur...

Reducere. DescriptionA fascinating compilation of weather forecasts, recipes, jokes, and aphorisms, Poor Richard's Almanack debuted in 1732. This new edition...

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An anthology of writings by legendary poet Tristan Tzara (1896-1963). It includes a critical introduction, an account of variants, and an essay set...

This Very Short Introduction aims to disentangle the 'real' Marquis de Sade from his mythical and demonic reputation of the past two hundred years....

'Love is nothing without feeling. And feeling is still less without love.' Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of 'a school of sentimental ...

Reducere. Best known as a writer of supernatural horror, T.E.D. Klein, author of The Ceremonies and Dark Gods, has also written essays, articles, op-ed piece...

Reducere. Collected here for the first time: a selection of the great writer's journalism, which he considered more important to his legacy than his acclaime...

Reducere. First published in 1666, "The Blazing World", is both one of the first novels written in English and one of the earliest works of science fiction. ...

Reducere. The Campaner Thal And Other Writings, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have ...

This is the first new translation in over forty years of Sade's novel Justine. It is also the first ever critical edition, based on the original 17...

The fifth volume of the History of Middle-earth, containing the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The...

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Reducere. "My Inventions" is a candid and illuminating autobiography of Nikola Tesla, one of the most important technological innovators of the modern indust...

Descartes' The World offers the most comprehensive vision of the nature of the world since Aristotle, and is crucial for an understanding of his la...