The Torture Garden by Octave Mirbeau

The Torture Garden

Octave Mirbeau

fiction classics erotica challenging dark reflective slow-paced

122 pages | first published 1899

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Following the twin trails of desire and depravity to a shocking, sadistic paradise - a garden in China where torture is practiced as an art form - a dissolute Frenchman discovers the true depths of degradation beyond his prior bourgeois imaginings...
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