Seduction and scandal
This new translation gives Laclos a modern voice, and readers will be able to judge whether the novel is as "diabolical" and "infamous" as its critics have claimed, or whether it has much to tell us about a world we still inhabit.
An epistolary novel chronicles the cruel seduction of a young girl by two ruthless, eighteenth-century aristocrats
Above all, this book helps victims find the strength to end their toxic relationships with psychopaths and move on, stronger and wiser, with the rest of their lives.
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...
The first collection to emphasize the complex interaction between gender and postcoloniality. Most people in the world, from Africa to Asia and beyond, live in the aftermath of colonialism.
On July 20 , 1877 , Judge Duval , presiding over the Eleventh Circuit Court , which sat in Austin , Texas , ruled on an application for a writ of habeas corpus submitted by Lou Brown of McLennan County . Brown had been arrested by ...
Daring, original, and highly erotic, this 18th-century novel explores the moral ambiguities of love and revenge in a series of letters that chronicle a ruthless game of seduction and betrayal.
Della Evans's hand came down like lightning and whacked the side of her daughter's cheek. “What the hell are you doing out here? Cover yourself up!” She stopped dead and looked closely at Alice's breasts as if she were seeing ...
Dangerous Liaisons is a 1988 American period romantic drama film directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay by Christopher Hampton, based on his play Les liaisons dangereuses, which was itself adapted from the 18th-century French novel of ...
The book seeks to unravel the myths that have developed around crime in these locales, while providing facts and informing the debate on how organized crime corrupts democratic institutions, especially in relation to the funding of ...