Philosophy in the Bedroom
No 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. Philosophy in the Bedroom presents the clearest summation of his political philosophy. It follows three aristocrats as they indoctrinate the fifteen-year-old Eugénie de Mistival in "the principles of the most outrageous libertinism." 200 years after de Sade's death, readers will continue to find shock and delight in this most joyous of his erotic works.