The Marquis de Sade was known to be daring and scandalous. What is less known is that he possessed a dark but undeniable sense of humour. visible in even his most outrageous and sombre publications, this humour burst into full bloom in his shorter works of fiction.
The great virtue of this volume is that it reveals that lighter, comic side of Sade. The Mystified Magistrate is a political satire infused with a light touch that shows a very different side to the Marquis de Sade.
