Dangerous Liaisons
- ISBN-10
- 0140624481
- ISBN-13
- 9780140624489
- Series
- Dangerous Liaisons
- Category
- Aristocracy (Social class)
- Pages
- 395
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Author
- Choderlos de Laclos
Description
For the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont seduction is a game - the former lovers relish manipulating others to bring amusement to their jaded existences. While Valmont is determined to succeed in his conquest of a virtuous married woman, Merteuil challenges him to seduce an innocent convent girl who it to be married to her former lover. As their intrigues become increasingly 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 the two conspirators could have guessed. Depicting decadence and moral corruption in pre-revolutionary France, Dangerous Liaisons (1782) is one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature.
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