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Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Classics
In this famous story of seduction, two highly intelligent but amoral French aristocrats plot the downfall of a respectable young married woman and a fifteen year old girl who has only just emerged from the convent. The letters these two conspirators exchange are remarkably frank in describing how they m ...Show more
Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos
Category: Classic Fiction
A new translation of one of the most notorious novels of all time 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 Vicomt ...Show more
Dangerous Liaisons: Popular Penguins by Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Depicting decadence and moral corruption in pre-revolutionary France, Dangerous Liaisons is one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. Two aristocrats embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded existences. While the Mar ...Show more
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. The subject of major film and stage adaptations, the novel's prime movers, the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil, form an ...Show more
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Category: Classic | Series: Routledge Classics
'I resolved to write a book which would create some stir in the world and continue to do after I had gone from it' - Choderlos de Laclos. A great sensation at the time of first publication, "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" reads as much the most 'modern' of eighteenth-century novels. Viewed by some critics as ...Show more
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos
Category: Fiction | Series: Classics S.
An epistolary novel chronicles the cruel seduction of a young girl by two ruthless, 18th-century aristocrats.
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