'Senneval, you see in me your sister, the girl you seduced at Nancy, the woman who murdered your son, the wife of your own father and the ignoble creature who s

Five stories from the collection Crimes de l'Amour first published in 1800, which forms a distinct genre within de Sade's body of work. He sets out to show how

Written when he was at the height of his storytelling powers, The Crimes of Love presents all of de Sade's most infamous themes--incest, matricide, sadism, hatr

Who but the Marquis de Sade would write, not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love, but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the cruel rewards

Originally published in 1800, Crimes of Passion contained eleven stories and an essay on the novel. The present book contains three abridged tales. In “Florvi