books.google.co.nz - Once described as "the most sickening work of art of the nineteenth century," Mirbeau's classic novel follows a young man's journey to the ends of desire and depravity in a garden in China where torture is practiced as a work of art....http://books.google.co.nz/books/about/The_Torture_Garden.html?hl=it&id=oXUTeMUiHekC&q=crowd&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Torture Garden