The Crimes of Love (Owc)

*This is the fullest 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.
*The stories variously depict the desperate lengths to which people are driven by passion, and feature embezzlement, abduction, murder and incest.
*This selection includes the 'Essay on Novels', the preface to the collection and an important statement of his 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.

'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 sent your mother to the gallows...'

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