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The Marquis de Sade spent more than half his life in prison, which
gave him the excuse to take his revenge on society through
evocations of sexual cruelty. Excluded from normal life, he
developed an extremist vision of the world through stories,
dialogues, and historical novels. Included here are extracts from
his major fiction, including Les Cents Vingt Journees de Sodome,
Justine, and the compulsively vicious Juliette. Other titles by
Margaret Crosland, available from Dufour, include Sade's Wife and
de Sade's Crimes of Love.
The story of: the Marquise de Sade is inevitably linked to that of
her husband, but Renee Pelagie de Montreuil gains the consideration
she never received in her lifetime in this book by "one of the
world's most distinguished scholars of Sade's work" -- The
Independent. Who was Sade's wife? And why did she love him so
devotedly for almost thirty years? Crosland competently shows how
the Sade marriage symbolized the decay of the old aristocracy, and
conveys the struggle of one individual to establish her personal
identity at a time in France when women had virtually no rights of
their own.
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Rough Trade (Paperback)
Dominique Manotti; Translated by Elfreda Powell, Margaret Crosland
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This fast-moving story takes the reader rapidly along dark paths of
sinister events in Le Sentier, the heart of Paris's rag trade. One
spring morning a Thai girl is found dead in a fashion workshop.
Another unlucky prostitute, or something more sinister? A club is
uncovered where people secretly get filmed having sex - including
some very distinguished men. This is the seedy underworld of Paris
- the traffic in heroin, illegal immigrants without work permits,
police officers' secret lives. A Turkish man - a police informer
and leader of exploited immigrants rag-trader workers - is also
Police Inspector Danquin's lover. This is a gripping morality tale
of twentieth-century Paris. Dominique Manotti teaches
nineteenth-century Economic History. "Rough Trade", her first
novel, was awarded the top prize for the best thriller of the year
by the French Crime Writers Association.
This selection of Margaret Crosland's poetry shows her to be worthy
of a place among that small circle of English women poets of
unassertive but authentic accomplishment--poets like Sylvia
Townsend Warner, Ruth Pitter, and Anne Ridler--and like them she
has her own quietly distinctive voice. Her poetry is honest,
unobtrusively learned, and unpretentious. The title of this book
comes from the author's observation that life consists of little
else: we meet people, places, jobs, ideas, but they are rarely
there forever, there is always a parting, or at least a development
in some way. This new collection contains both old favorites,
revised for this volume, and new poems.
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