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Loading... Justine or the Misfortunes of Virtueby Marquis de Sade
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This retelling is simplified and with less philosophy but retains and power, flavour and cruelty of the novel that spawned sadism  BondageBooks | Nov 27, 2009 |  règlements de comptes avec la prétendue morale. gigile | Oct 26, 2007 | Justine Printed in June 1954 By Imprimerie Mazarine Paris in original yellow paper wraps, with light edge wear a very clean and bright copy of the first complete English translation undertaken by Austryn Wainhouse.  laslo_h | Dec 30, 2006 | 
Justine and Juliette were sisters and the daughters of a banker who died and left them in bankrupcy, they were thrown out of the nunery were they were staying, Juliette did well working as prostitute and Justine went to work with an usurer who ask her to steal for him, when she said no, the usurer acused her of a thef she didn't commit, she managed to escape jail but that was just the begining of her pains
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0965208281, Paperback)Sade's most famous novel was written while he was a prisoner in the Bastille and first published in 1791. Stating that he wrote it for money, tailoring it to the wishes of the printer who asked it be "well-spiced". The book about two youg orphaned sisters who represent the two sides of human nature.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:08 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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