Selected Writings of De Sade. Selected and translated by Leonard de Saint-Yves. de Sade, Donatien Alphonse François, Comte de (Marquis de Sade), 1740-1814. Saint-Yves, Leonard de, translator - ©1954

British Book Centre, NY [c1954]. Hard Cover. 306 pages; Includes Dialogue Entre un Pêtre et un Moribond; Les 120 Journées de Sodome; Justine; Contes et Fabliaux (The Mystified Magistrate; Miss Henrietta Stralson; Augustine de Villeblanche; Retaliation); Aline et Valcour; Le Comte Oxtiern; Discours; Juliette; La Philosophie dans le Boudoir; Idée sur les Romans; Zoloe; Testament. '...with de Sade, if he is to be examined and understood in a level-headed way, there is very little [of his works] that can be left out, because his range is so great and the extremes of his imagination so far-flung in unknown territory. During his lifetime he begged his detractors not to condemn him before reading to the end of whatever they were about to attack. The same holds good today...' 'A logical appreciation of de Sade is closely linked with important changes in human behaviour, concerned not with the sanctioning of moral anarchy but with the end of hypocrisy.'  dj shows minor signs of wear, else VG. Stock# 30582