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Torture Garden, EPUB eBook

Torture Garden EPUB

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Clara goes to China where she experiences the delights of the torture garden.

Baroque sadism mioxed up with political satire. 'A century after its first publication, this book is still capable of shocking.

The opening satire is probably meaningful only to scholars of French political history, but the subsequent journey into the Far East accentuates connections between love and death, sex and depravity, fastidiousness and pleasure. And the petty, parochial corruptions of the narrator are put into context by the immersion into the Sadeian world of the Torture Garden.' The Times

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