The Marquise de Gange

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The Marquis de Sade Will McMorran (Reader in French & Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London)

The Marquise de Gange

The Marquis de Sade, Will McMorran (Reader in French & Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London)

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English

Worlds Classics
14 October 2021

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Erotic fiction; Fiction in translation

Series: Oxford World's Classics

'It is time to die, Madame: there shall be no mercy for you..!'It was one of the most shocking crimes of the seventeenth century, and would provide Sade with the inspiration for the last novel he published. The beautiful and virtuous Euphrasie, admired by the King himself, falls in love with the young and handsome Alphonse, Marquis de Gange. Within the forbidding walls of his castle in Provence, however, sinister forces are conspiring against the young couple. Alphonse's brothers, the Abbé and the Chevalier, want Euphrasie for themselves. Published in English for the first time, The Marquise de Gange is a neglected Gothic classic by one of the most notorious authors in the literary canon. Although a departure from his earlier pornographic and libertine works, beneath the novel's thin veneer of respectability lurks the same subversive presence of an author plotting against virtue in distress.

By: The Marquis de Sade
Translated by: Will McMorran (Reader in French & Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London)
Imprint: Worlds Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 178g
ISBN: 9780198848288
ISBN 10: 0198848285
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 14 October 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr. Will McMorran is a Reader in French & Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London. His translation of Sade's The 120 Days of Sodom with Thomas Wynn was awarded the Scott Moncrieff Prize in 2017.

Reviews for The Marquise de Gange

Will McMorran's excellent Introduction dramatically retells the story of the notorious true crime in which a Proven,cal noblewoman was murdered by her husband's brothers in 1667, showing where Sade's tale fits within the many accounts of her death. He also provides a very helpful selected bibliography of the retellings of the story. * Caroline Warman, Jesus Colleges, Oxford, French Studies, January 2023 *