Marquis de Sade bibliography

Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, best known as the Marquis de Sade, was a French aristocrat, revolutionary and author of philosophical and sadomasochistic novels exploring such controversial subjects as rape, bestiality and necrophilia. He was a philosopher of extreme freedom, unrestrained by morality, religion or law, with the pursuit of personal pleasure as its foremost principle. De Sade was incarcerated in various prisons and in an insane asylum for about 32 years of his life, during which much of his writing was done. The term "sadism" is derived from his name.

Prose

Illustration of a Dutch printing of the book Juliette by the Marquis de Sade, c. 1800
First page from Justine

Historiettes

Essays

Plays

Political pamphlets

Letters and personal notes posthumously published

Uncertain/misattributions