120 Days of Sodom
Start Publishing LLC · Print & ebook · February 18, 2013
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- Who it’s for
- Sade’s notorious work pairs extreme violence with a frame of stories told by old prostitutes.
- Genres
- Erotica, The Classics, Horror
- Published
- Start Publishing LLC, February 18, 2013
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The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade relates the story of four wealthy men who enslave 24 mostly teenaged victims and sexually torture them while listening to stories told by old prostitutes. The book was written while Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille and the manuscript was lost during the storming of the Bastille. Sade wrote that he "wept tears of blood" over the manuscript's loss. Many consider this to be Sade crowing acheivement.
Unsettling Extremes
Sade’s notorious work pairs extreme violence with a frame of stories told by old prostitutes.
Come here for
- An unsettling collision of literary classic and sexual horror
- The stark premise of stories told amid captivity and torture
Expect
- A deeply disturbing account of enslavement and sexual torture
- A work written in prison, with a manuscript history as stark as its subject
Where it sits
| The Classics | 63% |
|---|---|
| Erotica | 60% |
| Horror | 36% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Historical Fiction
- Horror
- Authors
- Marquis de Sade
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- February 18, 2013
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Historical Fiction