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Free Marquis de Sade books in PDF, from the French aristocrat whose name gave the world the word sadism. Donatien Alphonse François de Sade was born in Paris in 1740 and died in 1814.

Sade spent roughly 32 years of his life locked in prisons and asylums, and that is where he wrote almost everything you see below. He drafted The 120 Days of Sodom on a long roll of paper inside the Bastille in 1785, then lost the manuscript when the French Revolution reached the fortress in 1789.

His novels are libertine fiction taken to its limit, and they are also philosophy from the sharpest edge of the Enlightenment. Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom and The 120 Days of Sodom are all here in free PDF, ready to read online or download.

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  • Justine

    Justine

    Sade's 1791 novel follows a young woman who holds to her virtue while the world punishes her for it. The book that made his reputation and the clearest statement of his argument about nature, morality and power.

    Marquis de Sade

    Format: PDF 295 pages 2.08 MB
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  • Philosophy in the Bedroom

    Philosophy in the Bedroom

    A 1795 work built as seven dialogues, part libertine fiction and part philosophical treatise. It includes the pamphlet Yet Another Effort, Frenchmen, where Sade sets out his case against religion and law.

    Marquis de Sade

    Format: PDF 227 pages 2.77 MB
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  • Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man

    Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man

    A short dialogue in which a dying man refuses the last rites and argues for nature as the only authority. Nine pages that carry the core of Sade's atheism, and the quickest way into his thinking.

    Marquis de Sade

    Format: PDF 9 pages 0.13 MB
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  • The 120 Days of Sodom

    The 120 Days of Sodom

    Written inside the Bastille in 1785 and not published until 1904, this is Sade's most extreme and most systematic book. The work that turned his name into a byword and the one most readers arrive looking for.

    Marquis de Sade

    Format: PDF 391 pages 1.1 MB
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  • Sensing Violence: Reading with the Marquis de Sade

    Sensing Violence: Reading with the Marquis de Sade

    Will McMorran examines what reading fictional violence does to a reader, using Sade's work as the test case. An open access study that traces how these books have been read, censored and translated over two centuries.

    Will McMorran

    Format: PDF 268 pages 21.01 MB
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Marquis de Sade died at the Charenton asylum in 1814, still writing. His books were banned for more than a century, then recovered by the surrealists in the 1920s and read ever since as philosophy as much as fiction.

If you are starting from zero, Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man runs nine pages and tells you quickly whether the rest is for you. Sensing Violence, by Will McMorran, is the one to pick if you want a book about Marquis de Sade rather than one by him.

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