Marquis De Sade 
Virtue 

The Marquis de Sade’s oft-overlooked novella Ernestine, or the Swedish Tale, published alongside the play he wrote after it, Count Oxtiern,
or the Consequences of Libertinage, showcases his profound moral and social principles, and sets this elegant critique of class prejudice apart from being a mere pornographic episode.

A propos de l’auteur

Dr David Carter has taught at St Andrews and Southampton universities in the UK and has been Professor of Communicative English at Yonsei University, Seoul. He has published on psycho- analysis, literature, drama, film history and applied linguistics, and now works freelance as a writer, journalist and translator. He has published books on the Belgian author Georges Simenon and Literary Theory, as well as in the field of film studies, the most recent being East Asian Cinema and The Western. For Hesperus he has translated Georges Simenon’s Three Crimes, Honoré de Balzac’s ‘Sarrasine’ and Klaus Mann’s Alexander.