Luisa Collodi Book order (chronological)

Camelie profumate: sono i fiori che accompagnano sempre Margherita Gautier e che diventano il perfetto simbolo di un personaggio mitico. Margherita: mantenuta del duca, amore impossibile di Armand, fragile donna malata e vittima dei suoi vizi, eppure misteriosamente forte. Un personaggio indimenticabile, che donò al suo giovanissimo autore (nel 1848, quando uscì la prima edizione, il figlio del grande Alexandre Dumas non aveva che ventiquattro anni) un successo clamoroso e ininterrotto, capace di superare i confini del tempo e dell’arte. L’autore stesso ne realizzò una versione teatrale; pochi anni dopo, Giuseppe Verdi saprà farne una trasposizione sublime, in musica, con La Traviata. Margherita Gautier, alias Violetta, è diventata così una figura a sé stante: un mito appunto, con il quale si sono confrontate dive come Eleonora Duse, Greta Garbo, Maria Callas.

A devastating first-hand testimony exposing the cruel and widespread practice of forced marriage 'I was twenty years old and dreamed of marrying for love.' Leila was born and brought up in France by Moroccan-born parents. But her romantic dreams were shattered when she was forced by her father to marry a man she'd never met, fifteen years older than her, and whose language she couldn't understand. The husband she didn't love beat her regularly in an attempt to force her into submission. With extraordinary courage, Leila fought back against the weight of family tradition to regain her liberty and dignity. And despite the very real risks, she has left her husband and speaks out openly against the evils of forced marriage.

Adorned with gripping cover art by Man Ray and translated by renowned scholar Dr. Paul J. Gillette, this dramatic collection of de Sade writings includes "Justine," "Juliette," "120 Days of Sodom," "Philosophy In The Bedroom" and many works often scattered among "pastiche" versions of de Sades oeuvre. Free of the author's repetitions, polemics and syntactically complex 18th century phrases, this edition captures the drama of de Sade's forays into human sexuality including such practices as voyeurism, fetishism, and, most famously, sadism. Vilified by critics in the 1800s as "Monstrous… depraved… An odious book by an even more odious man," de Sades depiction of his personal adventures has been studied and enjoyed by readers in light of the 20th and 21st centuries. Readers will also discover a mind as free as de Sades adventures were uninhibited, for he discusses natural evolution 25 years before Darwin's birth; postulates the existence of the unconscious mind a century before Sigmund Freud; and probes social mores decades before the work of Margaret Mead. He also espouses political ideas that were put into practice by such diverse figures as Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler and Fidel Castro. Born into French nobility in 1740, Marquis de Sade continues to open minds to new human experience more than 250 years later in this dramatic new release from Holloway House Publishing.