Women of iron and velvet and the books they wrote in France

CROSLAND, Margaret

Literature & Fiction

Constable

The Gothic Tales of the Marquis De Sade

Sade, Marquis De

Pan/Macmillan

Piaf

Arts & Photography

Music

G.P.Putnam's Sons

Musocal Studies, Film, Motion Pictures, French Literature, Biography

From 1949, when she wrote "The Second Sex", until her death in 1986, Simone de Beauvoir was at the centre of French intellectual life. This biography explores de Beauvoir's relationships with men and women to reveal her femininity and emotional nature, linking these to her literary development.

Simone De Beauvoir: The Woman and Her Work

Arrow (A Division of Random House Group)

William Heinemann, Ltd.

Who was Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette? A child whose intensely personal relationship with her mother has been called literary rather than natural; a whoma whose restless energy led her to seek sexual fulfillment through intimate relationships with both menb and women; a writer whose remarkable fiction merrors almost exactly her own scandal-frought life? Perhaps she is all of these, perhaps not; but there is no doubt that the life of this exquisite artist has always been surrounded by mystery and speculation.

Colette: The Difficulty of Loving

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Bobbs

Colette -- the difficulty of loving: A biography

Arts & Literature

Owen

Raymond Radiguet: A Biographical Study With Selections from His Work

Peter Owen Ltd

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 for selfless love in his stories--tragedy, despair, and death the inevitable outcome. Sade's villains will stop at nothing to satisfy their depraved passions, and they in turn suffer under the thrall of love. This is the most complete selection from the Marquis de Sade's four-volume collection of short stories, The Crimes of Love. David Coward's vibrant new translation captures the verve of the original, and his introduction and notes describe Sade's notorious career. This new selection includes "An Essay on Novels," Sade's penetrating survey of the novelist's art. It also contains the preface to the collection and an important statement of Sade's concept of fiction and one of the few literary manifestoes published during the Revolution. Appendices include the denunciatory review of the collection that it received on publication, and Diderot's vigorous response. A skilled and artful story-teller, Marquis de Sade's is also an intellectual who asks questions about society, about ourselves, and about life. Psychologically astute and defiantly unconventional, these stories show Sade at his best.

The Crimes of Love

Sade, Marquise de

Classics

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