TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sade
AU  - Coward,David
TI  - The misfortunes of virtue and other early tales
T2  - Oxford world's classics
SN  - 9780191593710
AV  - PQ2063.S3 A235 1999eb
U1  - 843.6 22
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Sade,
KW  - Erotic stories, French
KW  - Translations into English
KW  - Sadism in literature
KW  - Sadisme dans la littérature
KW  - FICTION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - France
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Mœurs et coutumes
KW  - Romans, nouvelles, etc
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Translations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (page xxxix); Cover; Contents; Introduction; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of the Marquis de Sade; A Note on Money; The Misfortunes of Virtue; Dialogue between a Priest and a Dying Man; The Successful Ruse; The Pimp Well Served; The Windbags of Provence; An Inexplicable Affair Vouched for by an Entire Province; The Prude, or the Unexpected Encounter; Émilie de Tourville, or Brotherly Cruelty; Augustine de Villeblanche, or Love's Stratagem; The Law of Talion; The Self-Made Cuckold, or the Unexpected Reconciliation; The Husband Who Said Mass: A Provençal Tale; The Lady of the Manor of Longeville, or a Woman's RevengeThe Confidence Men; Explanatory Notes
N2  - The name of the Marquis de Sade is synonymous with the blackest corners of the human soul, a byword for all that is foulest in human conduct. In his bleak, claustrophobic universe, there is no God, no morality, no human affection, and no hope. Power is given to the strong, and the strong are murderers, torturers, and tyrants. No quarter is given; compassion is the virtue of the weak. Yet Sade was a man of savage intelligence who carried the philosophy of the French Enlightenment to its logical extreme. His writings effectively release the individual from all social and moral constraint: for ma
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