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Justine, or, The misfortunes of virtue
- Author
- Sade, marquis de, 1740-1814.
- Preferred Title
- Infortunes de la vertu. English.
- Title
- Justine, or, The misfortunes of virtue / the marquis de Sade ; complete and unexpurgated translation by Alan Hull Walton.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- London ; New York : Corgi Books, 1965, c1964.
- Description
- 287 p. ; 18 cm.
- Other contributors
- Walton, Alan Hull. Sade, marquis de, 1740-1814. Justine. English. Selections. Sade, marquis de, 1740-1814. Nouvelle Justine. English. Selections.
- Other title
- Misfortunes of virtue
- Series
- Corgi book ; EN7219
- Notes
- Translation from the original French eds. "... from the original manuscript of 1787, together with expansions and selections from the editions of 1791 and 1797, notes, bibliographies, and an introduction": p. [1] Original ms., written in 1787, was first published in 1930 as: Les infortunes de la vertu. Sade expanded the original text, publishing it in 1791 (in 2 vols.) as: Justine, ou, Les malheurs de la vertu. In 1797, an expanded version (4 vols.) of the 1791 ed. was published as: La nouvelle Justine, ou, Les malheurs de la vertu, which was accompanied by a further six vol. set relating the story of Juliette, ou, Les prospérités du vice. Cf. Introduction, p. 48-54. For censorship history of this work, see: Bécourt, p. 43. Censored book. Former shelving location code: SM.
- References
- BM, 1966-1970, v. 21, col. 750. NUC 1956-67, S003157.
- Kinsey subjects
- Sadomasochism.
- Genre heading
- Fiction.