Philosophy in the Boudoir, or, The Immoral Mentors

Penguin Classics/ Deluxe Edition. 8vo. Pp. [xviii], 173, [1]. Illustrated wraps with French-fold flaps; untrimmed fore-edges. Cover art by Tomer Hanuka, in a jacket design by Paul Buckley and Tomer Hanuka. Introduction by Francine du Plessix Gray. Translated from the French by Joachim Neugroschel.

The 'most joyous' of de Sade's works, this 1795 book written in the form of a dramatic dialogue, follows three aristocrats as they indoctrinate Eugénie de Mistival in "the principles of the most outrageous libertinism." Perhaps the most concise and representative of all his works, it has often been regarded as being among the first Surrealist texts.