Dangerous liaisons

Dangerous liaisons

Choderlos de Laclos, 1741-1803

Book - 2007

"Published just years before the French Revolution, Laclos's great novel of moral and emotional depravity is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. Aristocrats and ex-lovers Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded lives. While Merteuil challenges Valmont to seduce an innocent convent girl, he is also occupied with the conquest of a virtuous married woman. Eventually their human pawns respond, and the consequences prove to be more serious-and deadly-than the players could have ever predicted"--Publisher description.

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Subjects
Aristocracy (Social class) > France > Fiction.
Seduction > France > Fiction.
Epistolary fiction.
Genres
Epistolary fiction
Published
London ; New York : Penguin 2007.
Language
English
French
Main Author
Choderlos de Laclos, 1741-1803 (-)
Other Authors
Helen Constantine (-)
Physical Description
xxviii, 418 pages ; 20 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxv-xxvi).
ISBN
9780140449570
  • Chronology
  • Introduction
  • Translator's note
  • Dangerous liaisons
  • Appendix 1: Additional letters
  • Appendix 2: Selected adaptations of Dangerous liaisons.

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