Virtue

By Marquis de Sade and David Carter

The Marquis de Sade's oft-overlooked novella Ernestine, or the Swedish Tale, published alongside the play he wrote after it, Count Oxtiern,
or the Consequences of Libertinage, showcases his profound moral and social principles, and sets this elegant critique of class prejudice apart from being a mere pornographic episode.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd.
• Release date: Sep 27, 2011
• ISBN: 9781780940182

Marquis de Sade

The Marquis de Sade was a French aristocrat, revolutionary and writer of violent pornography. Incarcerated for 32 years of his life (in prisons and asylums), the majority of his output was written from behind bars. Famed for his graphic depiction of cruelty within classic titles such as ‘Crimes of Love’ and ‘One Hundred Days of Sodom’, de Sade's name was adopted as a clinical term for the sexual fetish known as ‘Sadism’.