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The Chase
Underneath the patina of civilized society lies the Sadean demimonde: a bundle of lustful appetites fueled by momentary impulse and a desire for unfettered indulgence. And the target of this savagery: Justine de Bertole, a pious and virginal heroine. While her amoral sister Juliette gets all the wonders in the world, virtuous and faithful Justine is subjected to punishment after punishment at the hands of sadistic and abusive deviants. Grotesque, inhumane and compelling, Sade's novel overturns Rousseau's views of the social contract, and the common trope that punishment only visits sinners, to deliver a passionate treatise on good and evil, virtue and sin. ** Please contact Customer Service for additional content**
Show moreThe Marquis De Sade completed the first draft of Justine Volume 1, a powerful and compelling descent into the realms of sexual perversity and sado masochism, during two weeks in 1787 while a prisoner in the Bastille. Sexual degradation, humiliation and erotic pain are eloquently and openly explored in a novel that was to become the most famous and infamous of all de Sade's work. Despite six reprints the book's candor and sexual explicitness outraged the French establishment so much so that both de Sade and his publisher were arrested and instructed to relinquish any further copies and manuscripts in their possession. Today Justine Volume 1 remains a quintessential chronicle of unspeakable carnal desires. This production is read by Susan Penhaligon who will be very familiar for her television work amongst which 'Casualty', 'Upstairs Downstairs', and 'Bergerac' take their place alongside her ground breaking role in 'Bouquet of Barbed Wire'.
Show moreUne délicieuse compilation des plus grands classiques de la littérature érotique, lus avec talent par Nicolas Planchais, William Cros et Cléane Valon. La Vénus à la fourrure, de Sacher-Masoch : uvre fondatrice du sadomasochisme, ce roman est le tout premier à mettre en scène un homme et une femme qui décident de vivre leurs fantasmes de domination et de soumission sexuelle. Justine, ou les malheurs de la vertu, du marquis de Sade : une héroïne candide et vertueuse, tente de survivre dans un monde qui se révèle injuste et cruel, et se retrouve malgré elle dans des situations qui ont donné tout son sens au mot sadisme. La Pantoufle de Sapho, de Sacher-Masoch : Un gentilhomme voudrait dédier sa vie entière à sa passion pour une comédienne, et se retrouve dans une situation de domination charmante, illustrant la notion de masochisme qui doit son nom à cet écrivain. La vie ardente de Jules César, de Renée Dunan : à la fois un texte historique et une vision romancée de certains aspects très privés, développés selon une vision d'un personnage digne d'un grand roman d'aventure ! Le Confesseur, de Hugues Rebell : un classique charmant, décrivant une relation plus qu'ambiguë entre la princesse Bathory et son confesseur. Compilation réservée aux adultes.
Show moreDiscover a new version of Marquis de Sade's most famous and outrageous masterpieces: "Philosophy in the Bedroom" (La philosophie dans le boudoir), "Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue" and "The 120 Days of Sodom". Philosophy in the Bedroom (La philosophie dans le boudoir) was written in 1795 by the Marquis de Sade, while imprisoned in the Bastille. It is a work of extreme pornography, laced with socio-political suversion. The main characters are libertines, who decided to give a young maiden their own brand of sex education. They explain to her that pleasure is the most important goal of all, and then proceed with affirming that she will not be able to feel "true pleasure" without pain. Then they get down to the practical lessons. Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue, is an early work by the Marquis de Sade. It is a novella, written in two weeks while he was imprisoned in the Bastille. Unlike some of his other works, it is not just a catalogue of sadism. It is meant to bring new life to an old genre, which had the reader accustomed to see virtue eventually triumph after trials only meant to bring out its value. Sade would have none of that in Justine: in her quest for virtue, the main character keeps falling into terrible situations, which humiliate her and present her with sexual lessons hidden under the mask of virtue. She seeks refuge and confession in a monastery... All of this is narrated by Justine herself, on her way to the gallocks. Napoleon Bonaparte ordered the arrest of the anonymous author of Justine and Juliette, and as a result Sade was incarcerated for the last 13 years of his life. The book's destruction was ordered by the Cour Royale de Paris on May 19, 1815. The 120 Days of Sodom is "the most impure tale that has ever been told since our world began". It was written by the Marquis de Sade, in the space of 37 days, while imprisoned in the Bastille. Fearing confiscation, he had to write it on a continuous roll of paper, made up of small pieces glued together.
Show moreThe 120 Days of Sodom is "the most impure tale that has ever been told since our world began". It was written by the Marquis de Sade, in the space of 37 days, while imprisoned in the Bastille. Fearing confiscation, he had to write it on a continuous roll of paper, made up of small pieces glued together, and to hide it inside a dildo. The original manuscript is now on display in Paris, and is the third most expensive kept in France, insured for 12 million euros. Four unbelievably wealthy aristocrats lock themselves in a remote medieval castle, along with forty-two victims and accomplices. Ensues the often unbearable description of six hundred perversions, often applied to a victim while the narrator speaks; tales of torture, anal rape, coprophilia, paedophilia, in an obscene gradation that culminates in slaughter. This unfinished novel is a testimony to how dark the human soul can become when pushed to its limits; it transcends pornography, and no reader can emerge from it unscathed.
Show moreJustine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue, is an early work by the Marquis de Sade. It is a novella, written in two weeks while he was imprisoned in the Bastille. Unlike some of his other works, it is not just a catalogue of sadism. It is meant to bring new life to an old genre, which had the reader accustomed to see virtue eventually triumph after trials only meant to bring out its value. Sade would have none of that in Justine: in her quest for virtue, the main character keeps falling into terrible situations, which humiliate her and present her with sexual lessons hidden under the mask of virtue. She seeks refuge and confession in a monastery, only to discover the monks are perverts and to be forced to become their sex-slave; she tries to help a gentleman getting robbed in a field, but he eventually imprisons her in his dungeon, subjugating her to various sexual punishments... All of this is narrated by Justine herself, on her way to the gallocks. Napoleon Bonaparte ordered the arrest of the anonymous author of Justine and Juliette, and as a result Sade was incarcerated for the last 13 years of his life. The book's destruction was ordered by the Cour Royale de Paris on May 19, 1815.
Show morePhilosophy in the Bedroom (La philosophie dans le boudoir) was written in 1795 by the Marquis de Sade, while imprisoned in the Bastille. It is a work of extreme pornography, laced with socio-political suversion. The main characters are libertines, who decided to give a young maiden their own brand of sex education. They explain to her that pleasure is the most important goal of all, and then proceed with affirming that she will not be able to feel "true pleasure" without pain. Then they get down to the practical lessons. This book is full of extremely graphic and shocking descriptions, willfully obscene and violent to the reader; it is also an argument in favour of libertinism, with a demonstration on how it is the only way of thinking reinforcing the recent French Revolution, and that if it fails to penetrate the people of France, they are in grave danger of returning to a monarchic state.
Show moreC'est le récit de l'éducation érotique, sur une journée, d'une jeune fille de quinze ans, Eugénie, que Madame de Saint-Ange et le chevalier de Mirval, son frère, vont initier à toutes les facettes de la luxure et de la gymnastique de l'esprit, aidés de Dolmancé et du jardinier, Augustin. L'ouvrage est composé sous la forme de sept dialogues entrecoupés de discours sur la liberté, la religion, la politique et la morale. Ce chef d'uvre de l'érotisme est un livre initiatique, avec le style inimitable et puissant du Marquis de Sade. Pour adultes.
Show moreLongtemps réduit au statut d'écrivain pornographique|le marquis de Sade est de nos jours considéré comme une illustre figure du patrimoine littéraire français. Derrière sa plume érotique et amorale se cache la critique féroce de la société de l'Ancien régime. Élevé et éduqué chez les jésuites au collège de la cavalerie royale|Donatien Alphonse François de Sade passe une grande partie de sa vie en prison où il mourra. Ses murs et ses écrits - 'Les Cent vingt journées de Sodome ou l'école du libertinage'|'Justine ou les malheurs de la vertu' - étaient autant de provocations libertines et révolutionnaires que la société napoléonienne ne pouvait que réprimer. Héritier des Lumières|il fait de la renaissance philosophique de l'individu une apologie de la débauche|de la cruauté et de la satisfaction systématique de tous les vices.
Show moreLongtemps réduit au statut d'écrivain pornographique|le marquis de Sade est de nos jours considéré comme une illustre figure du patrimoine littéraire français. Derrière sa plume érotique et amorale se cache la critique féroce de la société de l'Ancien régime. Élevé et éduqué chez les jésuites au collège de la cavalerie royale|Donatien Alphonse François de Sade passe une grande partie de sa vie en prison où il mourra. Ses murs et ses écrits - 'Les Cent vingt journées de Sodome ou l'école du libertinage'|'Justine ou les malheurs de la vertu' - étaient autant de provocations libertines et révolutionnaires que la société napoléonienne ne pouvait que réprimer. Héritier des Lumières|il fait de la renaissance philosophique de l'individu une apologie de la débauche|de la cruauté et de la satisfaction systématique de tous les vices.
Show moreLongtemps réduit au statut d'écrivain pornographique|le marquis de Sade est de nos jours considéré comme une illustre figure du patrimoine littéraire français. Derrière sa plume érotique et amorale se cache la critique féroce de la société de l'Ancien régime. Élevé et éduqué chez les jésuites au collège de la cavalerie royale|Donatien Alphonse François de Sade passe une grande partie de sa vie en prison où il mourra. Ses murs et ses écrits - 'Les Cent vingt journées de Sodome ou l'école du libertinage'|'Justine ou les malheurs de la vertu' - étaient autant de provocations libertines et révolutionnaires que la société napoléonienne ne pouvait que réprimer. Héritier des Lumières|il fait de la renaissance philosophique de l'individu une apologie de la débauche|de la cruauté et de la satisfaction systématique de tous les vices.
Show moreLongtemps réduit au statut d'écrivain pornographique|le marquis de Sade est de nos jours considéré comme une illustre figure du patrimoine littéraire français. Derrière sa plume érotique et amorale se cache la critique féroce de la société de l'Ancien régime. Élevé et éduqué chez les jésuites au collège de la cavalerie royale|Donatien Alphonse François de Sade passe une grande partie de sa vie en prison où il mourra. Ses murs et ses écrits - 'Les Cent vingt journées de Sodome ou l'école du libertinage'|'Justine ou les malheurs de la vertu' - étaient autant de provocations libertines et révolutionnaires que la société napoléonienne ne pouvait que réprimer. Héritier des Lumières|il fait de la renaissance philosophique de l'individu une apologie de la débauche|de la cruauté et de la satisfaction systématique de tous les vices.
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