Dangerous liaisons
Language: English
Aristocracy (Social class) Aristocracy (Social class) - France Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Criticism Drama English Epistolary Fiction Fiction Fiction - General France - Social life and customs - 18th century French French Novel And Short Story General General & Literary Fiction Irish Literary Literature - Classics Literature: Classics Novels Scottish Seduction Seduction - France Welsh classics other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries
Publisher: Penguin
Published: Mar 27, 2007
Description:
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **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 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.