WINNER OF THE 2017 SCOTT MONCRIEFF PRIZE A new translation of Sades most notorious shocking and influential novelThis disturbing but hugely important text has influenced countless individuals throughout history Flaubert and Baudelaire both read Sade the surrealists were obsessed with him filmmakers like Pasolini saw parallels with twentiethcentury history in his writings and feminists such as Andrea Dworkin and Angela Carter clashed over him This new translation brings Sades provocative novel into Penguin Classics for the first time and will reignite the debate around this most controversial of writers
