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Dangerous Liaisons

Dangerous Liaisons

by Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, Helen Constantine
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Published in 1782, just years before the French Revolution, Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. At its centre are two aristocrats, former lovers, who embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded existences. While the Marquise de Merteuil challenges the Vicomte de Valmont to seduce an innocent convent girl, the Vicomte is also occupied with the conquest of a virtuous married woman. But as their intrigues become more duplicitous and they find their human pawns responding in ways they could not have predicted, the consequences prove to be more serious, and deadly, than Merteuil and Valmont could have guessed.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780140449570
ISBN10 0140449574
Series/Work OL1157252W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Penguin Classics
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

Aristocracia (Clase social) Aristocracy (Social class) Aristocracy (Social class) -- Fiction Classic Literature Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author) Epistolary fiction Fiction Fiction, erotica, general Fiction, historical, general Fiction, romance, general France, fiction France -- Fiction French fiction, translations into english General Laclos, choderlos de, 1741-1803 Literature Manners and customs Man-woman relationships, fiction Mock-heroic literature Novela

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