The Marquis de Sade
A Life
by Neil Schaeffer
567 pages· 2000· ISBN 9780674003927
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A biography of the 18th century soldier and writer who gave his name to sadism. The book portrays Sade as a political rabble-rouser whose 11-year sentence in a mental asylum was for more than just claiming sexual deviation was natural.
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