by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781840227314
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«Dangerous Liaisons» is the epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, published by Wordsworth Editions in paperback (400 pages, in English).
The Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, two eighteenth-century French aristocrats, plot by letter the seduction of a young married woman and of a girl just out of the convent. The epistolary exchange shows their manoeuvres and the tension between them, and portrays the morality, desire and boredom of the high society of the time.
English translation of the French novel «Les Liaisons dangereuses» (1782). This Wordsworth Classics edition dates from 2014.
For readers of classics and of eighteenth-century French literature interested in amorous intrigues, manipulation and social criticism.
Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos was a French novelist, official, Freemason and army general, best known for writing the epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782).
