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Title	:	The Crimes of Love
Author	:	Marquis de Sade
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 388 pages
Published	:	April 21st 2005 by Oxford University Press, USA (first published September 23rd 1799)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Cultural. France. Short Stories. Adult Fiction. Erotica. Literature. Philosophy

The Crimes of Love Paperback | Pages: 388 pages

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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 cruel rewards for selfless love in his stories--tragedy, despair, and death the inevitable outcome. Sade's villains will stop at nothing to satisfy their depraved passions, and they in turn suffer under the thrall of love.
This is the most complete selection from the Marquis de Sade's four-volume collection of short stories, The Crimes of Love. David Coward's vibrant new translation captures the verve of the original, and his introduction and notes describe Sade's notorious career. This new selection includes "An Essay on Novels," Sade's penetrating survey of the novelist's art. It also contains the preface to the collection and an important statement of Sade's concept of fiction and one of the few literary manifestoes published during the Revolution. Appendices include the denunciatory review of the collection that it received on publication, and Diderot's vigorous response. A skilled and artful story-teller, Marquis de Sade's is also an intellectual who asks questions about society, about ourselves, and about life. Psychologically astute and defiantly unconventional, these stories show Sade at his best.

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Original Title:	Les Crimes de l'amour, Nouvelles héroïques et tragiques
ISBN:	019280507X (ISBN13: 9780192805072)
Edition Language:	English

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Flat.

sublime. sophisticated. sedate. soiled. smutty. splendid. de Sade. de suction.

I read Florville et Courval, Eugenie de Franval, and Faxelange in French for my class

Amorality at its best - oddly enough each of these unsavory characters gets their comeupance for their amorality....hmmmm....

Its officially, I am a great fan of Marquis de Sade and I want to read everything he has ever written. At first I was quite surprised that he wasnt as controvertional as I was expecting, but as soon as I got more in the book, there we go consented incest between father and daughter; revengeful women that hate their daughters because they want to fuck their lovers; puritan women that once had children before marriage () and, the cherry on top of the cake was when at the end of Crimes of Love we

This was the first de Sade book I ever picked up. And it was not my last, although I haven't really gotten around to finishing many of the others! And the stories in this collection still haunt me. I wasn't sure what I was getting into when I first grabbed this book off the Penguin Classics shelf in my bookstore, but I doubt that it was this!On the one hand, I had expected something akin to erotica (mainly because people were so outraged back when he published his works) and it was definitely

So Goodreads doesnt have the Bantam edition of Crimes of Love that I read. They only have this Oxford World Classics edition which seems to be much longer. The book I read has 3 short novellas in it: Eugenie de Franval, Miss Henrietta Stralson, and Florville and Courval. Now, I had never read de Sade before. I have read a lot of other people who had read de Sade, such as Angela Carter ( The Sadeian Woman), Octavio Paz ( An Erotic Beyond), and maybe a little bit by some continental philosophers