Our Mini Trips are small and mighty - they squeeze all the excitement and authenticity of our longer Epic Trips into a manageable 3-5 day window. Epic Trips are deeply immersive 8 to 16 days itineraries, that combine authentic local experiences, exciting activities and enough down time to really relax and soak it all in. Our Trips are suitable for both solo travellers and friends who want to explore the world together. That is why we have intensively curated a collection of premium small-group trips as an invitation to meet and connect with new, like-minded people for once-in-a-lifetime experiences in three categories: Epic Trips, Mini Trips and Sailing Trips. Increasingly we believe the world needs more meaningful, real-life connections between curious travellers keen to explore the world in a more responsible way. We are proud that, for more than a decade, millions like you have trusted our award-winning recommendations by people who deeply understand what makes certain places and communities so special. Culture Trip launched in 2011 with a simple yet passionate mission: to inspire people to go beyond their boundaries and experience what makes a place, its people and its culture special and meaningful - and this is still in our DNA today. Since you are here, we would like to share our vision for the future of travel – and the direction Culture Trip is moving in. Each month is set to feature tales of increasing depravity the first is dedicated to the “simple passions,” the last to “the greatest atrocities and abominations.” Keen to regiment the proceedings, the hosts have hired four experienced prostitutes to recount, in the evenings, stories of perversions they’ve encountered (150 each, for a total of 600), which will direct the goings-on inside the retreat. With them is an assemblage of 36 victims - 16 of whom are pubescent boys and girls kidnapped from their families - gathered to be submitted to their captors’ every sexual whim. The plot itself, unlike Ulysses, is fairly straightforward, and carefully structured to allow the author to present a great number of perversions in a clear and comprehensible manner: We are at the end of Louis XIV’s reign, in the early eighteenth century, and four rich French libertines have barricaded themselves for four months inside a castle lost somewhere within the Black Forest. The 120 Days of Sodom is, by all standards (including the Marquis’ own), the most vile and disturbing book you could ever read, something no Penguin Classics drapery should be able to cover. This new version of the 120 Days is well overdue these two dons have done a sterling job. * The Economist * An excellent translation * The Times Literary Supplement * A blistering new translation. Sade's novel feels as grimly relevant to the terrors of our age as to those of his own.
In their scholarly and wise introduction, the translators are careful to emphasise the historical context. Instead it is like a window, allowing us to have as clear of view as possible of Sade's mind and world. It has none of the phoney archaism of earlier English translations. Without in any way giving in to hyperbole, I would say that this translation is a 21st century monument, changing not only the way in which we view the French 18th century, but providing a guide to the present and future - Andrew Hussey, Scott Moncrieff Prize judge The great merit of this edition is the thoroughly excellent translation by Will McMorran and Thomas Wynn.
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