Download or read book The Crimes of Love written by marquis de Sade and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five stories from the collection Crimes de l'Amour first published in 1800, which forms a distinct genre within de Sade's body of work. He sets out to show how love can lead to crime and punishment, but unlike the wicked characters in his major novels, these all come to a bad end. Distributed in the US by Dufour. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR