Makes available in a paperbound edition the book first published in 1987 under the title An Extraordinary Woman; Selected Writings of Germaine de Stael. Translated and with an introduction by Vivian
While the marquis de Sade was drafting The 120 Days of Sodom in the Bastille, another libertine marquis in a nearby cell was also writing a novel—one equally outrageous, full of sex and slander, and m
