Justine - The Marquis de Sade

JUSTINE
or The Misfortunes of Virtue

A faithful and unexpurgated translation
by Alan Hull Walton from the original
manuscript of 1787, together with
expansions and selected variants from the
editions of 1791 and 1797, notes,
bibliographies, and an introduction.

Note to the reader
This, and only this, is the complete and
unexpurgated edition of the Marquis de
Sade’s most celebrated work, about which
the French critic, Maurice Blanchot said:
‘Nowhere in the world, and at no other
time has there been such a scandalous book
in the whole of literature.’

JUSTINE
A CORGI BOOK

Originally published in Great Britain
by Neville Spearman Ltd

PRINTING HISTORY
Neville Spearman Edition published 1964
Corgi Edition published 1965
Corgi Edition reprinted 1965

© Alan Hull Walton

Dediée
A MONSIEUR JEAN-JACQUES PAUVERT
AMI ET EDITEUR
par
ALAN HULL WALTON

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