The 120 Days of Sodom or the School of Licentiousness (Les
120 journées de Sodome ou l'école du libertinage) is a book written by the
French writer Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade in 1785. It relates
the story of four wealthy men who enslave 46 mostly teenaged victims and
sexually torture and kill them while listening to stories told by old
prostitutes.
The book was not published until 1905. Originally written in French, it was
translated into many languages, including English, Japanese and German. Due to
its extreme sexual and violent nature, the book remained banned in many
countries for a long time.
— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
