Can I read The Fan-Maker's Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade (Ballantine Reader's Circle) on EtoBox?

The Fan-Maker's Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Rikki Ducornet; Verena Stalder is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Fan-Maker's Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade (Ballantine Reader's Circle) about?

<p>Rikki Ducornet's boldest imaginative act yet-a brilliant novel about the Marquis de Sade that will forever change the way we regard one of history's most notorious men.</p> <p>Picture a dramatic courtroom scene: during the French Revolution a fan-maker is on trial because of a manuscript seized in her rooms and her friendship with the Marquis de Sade, the notorious author of Justine, who has already been condemned and imprisoned by the same court for his sexual transgressions. Not only has she made exquisite and sexually provocative fans for her friend, but she has also coauthored with the Marquis a book about the infamous Spanish missionary, Bishop Landa, accusing him of massacres and other hideous abuses against the native population of the New World. The men of the court are so consumed with punishing the authors of this scandalous book that they are blinded to the folly of their own accusations against the Marquis.</p> <p>The Fan-Maker's Inquisition is a novel about books and the reveries that enger them, about the intrinsic necessity of the sovereign imagination, and about the risks of passionate living and thinking.</p>

Who reads The Fan-Maker's Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade (Ballantine Reader's Circle)?

Author

Rikki Ducornet; Verena Stalder

Publisher

New York: Ballantine Books

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780345441041

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, History, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.75 / 5 (187 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13