{"product_id":"justine-philosophy-in-the-bedroom-and-other-writings-paperback","title":"Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe biography, the philosophy, and some of the most influential works of the infamous French writer who shocked the world with his erotic novel, Justine.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo other writer has so scandalized proper society as the Marquis de Sade, but despite the deliberate destruction of over three-quarters of his work, Sade remains a major figure in the history of ideas. His influence on some of the greatest minds of the last century--from Baudelaire and Swinburne to Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky and Kafka--is indisputable. This volume contains \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy in the Bedroom\u003c\/i\u003e, a major novel that presents the clearest summation of his political philosophy; \u003ci\u003eEugnie de Franval\u003c\/i\u003e, a novella widely considered to be a masterpiece of eighteenth-century French literature; and the only authentic and complete American edition of his most famous work, \u003ci\u003eJustine\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis literary portrait of Sade is completed by one of his earliest philosophical efforts, \u003ci\u003eDialogue between a Priest and a Dying Man\u003c\/i\u003e, a selection of his letters, a fifty-page chronology of his life, two important essays on Sade, and a bibliography of his work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Sade] remains a great, horrifying, but also vastly illuminating figure.\" --\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Justine is the most abominable book ever engendered by the most depraved imagination.\" --\u003ci\u003eNapoleon Bonaparte\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Shines a perverse and revealing spotlight on the entire era of the French Revolution . . . An important and elucidating book.\" --Robert Lowry, \u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48710007652569,"sku":"9780802132185","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0787\/3121\/5065\/files\/9780802132185.jpg?v=1778792854","url":"https:\/\/www.blacknectarbooks.com\/products\/justine-philosophy-in-the-bedroom-and-other-writings-paperback","provider":"blacknectar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}