Robert Musil : what price homosexual sadism? / William B. Ober.

House of Anita / Boris Lurie ; with a foreword, afterword, comments and appendixes by Terence Sellers (1952-2016).

Justine, or The Misfortunes of virtue / The Marquis de Sade ; a complete and unexpurgated translation by Alan Hull Walton.

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Sadomasochism in literature

Works from the collections

Robert Musil : what price homosexual sadism? / William B. Ober.

House of Anita / Boris Lurie ; with a foreword, afterword, comments and appendixes by Terence Sellers (1952-2016).

Justine, or The Misfortunes of virtue / The Marquis de Sade ; a complete and unexpurgated translation by Alan Hull Walton.