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Les Liaisons dangereuses (French: [le ljɛzɔ̃ dɑ̃ʒ(ə)ʁøz]; English: Dangerous Liaisons) is a French epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, first published in four volumes by Durand Neveu from March 23, 1782.
Oct 30, 2007 · by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (Author), Helen Constantine (Editor, Translator, Introduction) 4.3 386 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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 ...
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Dangerous Liaisons, novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, first published in 1782 as Les Liaisons dangereuses. The work, also translated as Dangerous Acquaintances, is considered one of the earliest examples of the psychological novel. Laclos’s first novel, Dangerous Liaisons caused an immediate.
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The Marquise is forced to flee town and, like a wicked old witch, is never heard from again. Full of regret for her activities with Valmont, Cécile returns to the convent from whence she came, with the intention of becoming a nun. A short summary of Pierre Ambroise Laclos's Dangerous Liaisons.
Dangerous Liaisons, a novel by French author Pierre Ambroise Choderos de Laclos, is an epistolary work first published in 1782. It delves into the lives of the scheming and manipulative Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil. The two former lovers engage in a game of seduction and betrayal, using others as pawns in their intricate plots.
4.06. 53,635 ratings2,442 reviews. 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 unholy ...
May 13, 2014 · See all formats and editions. Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. 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.
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