Dangerous liaisons / Choderlos de Laclos ; translated with an introduction and notes by Helen Constantine.
"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 seductio...
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| Other title: | Liaisons dangereuses. English |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
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London ; New York :
Penguin,
2007.
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| Series: | Penguin classics.
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| Summary: | "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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| Item Description: | "First published in 1782"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | xxviii, 418 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [xxv]-xxvi) |
| ISBN: | 0140449574 (pbk.) 9780140449570 (pbk.) |
| Language: | Translated from the French. |