The Selected Writings of the Marquis De Sade

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When I was asked to select and translate work by the Marquis de Sade for publication in England I knew that there would be two major difficulties at the outset--the difficulty of obtaining authentic texts and the difficulty of publishing in English important sections of his work which public opinion and legal precedent hold to be obscene and blasphemous.