title: The Mystified Magistrate: And Other Tales
author: Marquis De Sade
description: Donatien-Alphonse-Fran ois de Sade (1740-1814), sometimes referred to as the "Divine Marquis," spent 27 years (half his adult life) in jail. When his increasingly unconventional behavior in public embarrassed his family, his mother-in-law schemed to keep Sade behind bars by petitioning the king and bribing justices. Ironically, it was she who made Sade a writer, for during those long periods of confinement and isolation his fertile imagination ran rampant, and he turned to writing. By the same author who penned the pornographic novel, Justine, these stories are rather tame in comparison, but all the familiar themes are there: homosexuality, lesbianism, torture, and disdain for the courts. The collection features the novella "The Mystified Magistrate," which mocks one of the judges who sentenced Sade to prison, as well as ten shorter works. It will be enjoyed by readers who appreciate the author's mordant wit, possess a sense of humor, and take a bemused or scholarly interest in Sade's bizarre personality. Recommended for all public and academic libraries.DBob Ivey, Univ. of Memphis <br />Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  _'He's always been a law unto himself.'_
  
  
  _Rafe Lindsay, Earl of Invercaldy, was lord of all he surveyed. But if he
  thought he was going to assert droit de_
  
  
  _seigneur over his new tenant he had another think coming, Isobel decided.
  Those days were long since gone. Not_
  
  
  _that a man who had everything was going to, be interested in a widow who was
  struggling to make ends meet as_
  
  
  _she brought up her unruly teenage daughter. And yet..._
  
  
  **What did he think she was?**
  
  
  Some kind of easy target? A cheap thrill? Or a woman on her own who was
  
  
  desperate for any kind of attention?
  
  
  He was a man who, by his own admission, had been called eccentric and a
  
  
  drunk. Perhaps he was drunk now. Isobel couldn't think of any other reason
  
  
  why the Earl of Invercaldy would find her attractive.
  
  
  'I think you'd better go,' she said tensely.
  
  
  **Anne Mather** began writing when she was a child, progressing through
  
  
  torrid teenage romances to the kind o