Marquis de Sade Book order (chronological)

A sensational assembly of salacious stories selected from the secret shelves of the libraries of libertines, long-gone gentlemen, rakes and roues. These pages are patinated with the pulsating passion of vigorous youths, willing wenches, innocent initiates, meddling madames and vicarious voyeurs. The passionate participants, the actors and actresses of these romances, the heroes and heroines of these tales all seem to need little encouragement to indulge in their ribald and riotous recreation. Few avenues of amorous adventure and exotic experiment will be left unexplored. Here some great and some prudently anonymous authors inspired by inventive imagination and, probably, personal experience lay out their works of fantasy for your edification.

Sedam dijaloga Filozofije u budoaru prate seksualno, moralno i filozofsko obrazovanje mlade libertinke Eženi. I u ovom Sadovom delu ogleda se njegov san o svemoći -- učitelji su libertinski slobodoumnici i razvratnici koji uživaju u svim prednostima svog plemenitog porekla. Dečju naivnost zamieniće cinizam zrelosti; optimističnost prosvetiteljstva nasleđuje potpuno i sveobuhvatno razočaranje. De Sad kritikuje lažne vrline, puritansko gledište seksualnosti i obmanu religije. Mašta mu dopušta da izvuče sopstveni zaključak prema kojem smrt Boga nužno vodi okrutnosti, a zločin postaje jedina sloboda koju čovjek može u prirodi ostvariti.