The 120 Days of Sodom, and other writings

A group of amoral libertines retire to a sealed chateau with an entourage of innocent victims, all of whom are murdered in ways both sexual and Byzantine. De Sade's taste for death and torture may have exceeded the strength of his writing hand, as after many pages of exquisitely detailed sexual mayhem, he begins to dispatch the cast in wholesale lots. Still, the work can inspire fantasies and much thought..