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The 120 Days of Sodom, or the School of LibertinismAlternatively The School of Licentiousness (Les 120 journées de Sodome ou l'école du libertinage) is a novel by the French writer and nobleman Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade. Described Read More..

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Description	The 120 Days of Sodom, or the School of LibertinismAlternatively The School of Licentiousness (Les 120 journées de Sodome ou l'école du libertinage) is a novel by the French writer and nobleman Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade. Described as both pornographic and erotic, it was written in 1785.Seaver, Richard and Austryn Wainhouse. Forward. 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings By Marquis de Sade. Eds. and Trans. Austryn Wainhouse and Richard Seaver. New York: Grove Press, 1966. It tells the story of four wealthy male libertines who resolve to experience the ultimate sexual gratification in orgies. To do this, they seal themselves away for four months in an inaccessible castle in Saint-Martin-de-Belleville, France, with a harem of 46 victims, mostly young male and female teenagers, and engage four female brothel keepers to tell the stories of their lives and adventures. The women's narratives form an inspiration for the sexual abuse and torture of the victims, which gradually mounts in intensity and ends in their slaughter.The work went unpublished until the early twentieth century. In recent times it has been translated into many languages, including English, Japanese, Spanish, Russian and German. It remains a highly controversial book, having been banned by some governmentsUniversity of Melbourne (2013). Banned Books in Australia - A Special Collections-Art in the Library Exhibition." "" Retrieved: 12.06.2014 due to its explicit nature and themes of sexual violence and extreme cruelty, but remains of significant interest to students and historians.
Description	The 120 Days of Sodom, or the School of LibertinismAlternatively The School of Licentiousness (Les 120 journées de Sodome ou l'école du libertinage) is a novel by the French writer and nobleman Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade. Described as both pornographic and erotic, it was written in 1785.Seaver, Richard and Austryn Wainhouse. Forward. 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings By Marquis de Sade. Eds. and Trans. Austryn Wainhouse and Richard Seaver. New York: Grove Press, 1966. It tells the story of four wealthy male libertines who resolve to experience the ultimate sexual gratification in orgies. To do this, they seal themselves away for four months in an inaccessible castle in Saint-Martin-de-Belleville, France, with a harem of 46 victims, mostly young male and female teenagers, and engage four female brothel keepers to tell the stories of their lives and adventures. The women's narratives form an inspiration for the sexual abuse and torture of the victims, which gradually mounts in intensity and ends in their slaughter.The work went unpublished until the early twentieth century. In recent times it has been translated into many languages, including English, Japanese, Spanish, Russian and German. It remains a highly controversial book, having been banned by some governmentsUniversity of Melbourne (2013). Banned Books in Australia - A Special Collections-Art in the Library Exhibition." "" Retrieved: 12.06.2014 due to its explicit nature and themes of sexual violence and extreme cruelty, but remains of significant interest to students and historians.

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Name	The 120 Days of Sodom
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Authors	Marquis de Sade
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Genre	Erotic fiction , pornography
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Language	French
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Country	France
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Media_type	Print (Manuscript)
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Isbn	978-0-09-962960-3
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Oclc	27011420
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Publisher	Arrow Books (recent English edition)
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