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
Dangerous Liaisons (Translated by Helen Constantine 2007)
β Scribed by Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
- Publisher
- Penguin Books; Penguin Group
- Year
- 1782
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 253 KB
- Edition
- Penguin Classics (2007)
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0140449574
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β¦ Synopsis
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Paperback, 418 pages
Published: 1782
Edition: Penguin Classics (2007)
Translated from French (and Notes) by: Helen Constantine (2007)
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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.
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