The captivating, deeply reported true story of how one of the most notorious novels ever written--Marquis de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom--landed at the heart of one of the biggest scams in modern literary history. "With the Marquis de Sade, the sabotage of rare manuscript sales, and a massive Ponzi scheme at its center, reading The Curse Of the Marquis felt like I was on a twisty water slide shooting through a sleazy and bizarre landscape. This book is wild."--Adam McKay Described as both "one of... Celý popis
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The captivating, deeply reported true story of how one of the most notorious novels ever written--Marquis de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom--landed at the heart of one of the biggest scams in modern literary history.
"With the Marquis de Sade, the sabotage of rare manuscript sales, and a massive Ponzi scheme at its center, reading The Curse Of the Marquis felt like I was on a twisty water slide shooting through a sleazy and bizarre landscape. This book is wild."--Adam McKay
Described as both "one of the most important novels ever written" and "the gospel of evil," 120 Days of Sodom was penned by the Marquis de Sade, a notorious eighteenth-century aristocrat who waged a campaign of mayhem and debauchery across France, evaded his own execution, and inspired the word "sadism," the term for receiving pleasure from pain. But of all his crimes, Sade considered
"With the Marquis de Sade, the sabotage of rare manuscript sales, and a massive Ponzi scheme at its center, reading The Curse Of the Marquis felt like I was on a twisty water slide shooting through a sleazy and bizarre landscape. This book is wild."--Adam McKay
Described as both "one of the most important novels ever written" and "the gospel of evil," 120 Days of Sodom was penned by the Marquis de Sade, a notorious eighteenth-century aristocrat who waged a campaign of mayhem and debauchery across France, evaded his own execution, and inspired the word "sadism," the term for receiving pleasure from pain. But of all his crimes, Sade considered
