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The Crimes of Love : Heroic and tragic Tales, Preceded by an Essay on Novels
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Paperback Oxford Worlds Classics English
By (author) Marquis de Sade , Translated by David Coward


Senneval, you see in me your sister, the girl you seduced at Nancy, the woman who murdered your son, the wife of your own father and the ignoble creature who sent your mother to the gallows...

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. Sades villains will stop at nothing to satisfy their depraved passions, and they in turn suffer under the thrall of love.

Psychologically astute, and defiantly unconventional, these stories show Sade at his best. A skilled and artful storyteller, he is also an intellectual who asks questions about society, about ourselves, and about life, for which we have yet to find the answers. This new selection includes An Essay on Novels, Sades penetrating survey of the novelists art.

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Product details

Format Paperback | 400 pages
Dimensions 128 x 195 x 17mm | 279g
Publication date 01 Aug 2008
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
Language English
ISBN10 0199539987
ISBN13 9780199539987
Bestsellers rank 166,156