The Curse of the Marquis de Sade av Joel Warner

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<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>EDITORS’ CHOICE • The captivating, deeply reported true story of how one of the most notorious novels ever written—Marquis de Sade’s <i>120 Days of Sodom</i>—landed at the heart of one of the biggest scams in modern literary history.<br><br>“Reading <i>The Curse of the Marquis de Sade, </i>with the Marquis, the sabotage of rare manuscript sales, and a massive Ponzi scheme at its center,<i></i>felt like a twisty waterslide shooting through a sleazy and bizarre landscape. This book is wild.”—Adam McKay, Academy Award–winning filmmaker</b><br><br>Described as both “one of the most important novels ever written” and “the gospel of evil,” <i>120 Days of Sodom</i> was written by the Marquis de Sade, a notorious eighteenth-century aristocrat who waged a campaign of mayhem and debauchery across France, evaded execution, and inspired the word “sadism,” which came to mean receiving p