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. The letters these two conspirators exchange are remarkably frank in describing how they manage to achieve their ends and, at the same time, reveal nuances of character which make it impossible to dismiss either of them as simply evil.

Choderlos de Laclos Pierre – Les Liaisons dangereuses : Promis à la vie militaire en tant que cadet d’une famille récemment anoblie, l’officier d’artillerie Pierre Choderlos de Laclos végète dans des garnisons de province où il participe cependant à la vie mondaine. Déçu dans ses ambitions militaires, il décide de frapper un grand coup littéraire. “Je résolus de faire un ouvrage qui sortît de la route ordinaire, qui fît du bruit et qui retentît encore sur la terre quand j’y aurais passé …”...

The novel is composed entirely of letters exchanged between the various characters, which provides an intimate and voyeuristic look into their thoughts, emotions, and machinations. The story revolves around the manipulative and cunning Marquise de Merteuil and the seductive Vicomte de Valmont, who engage in a game of seduction and manipulation, using their sexual conquests as a means to seek revenge and exert power over others.Throughout the novel, the characters engage in intricate plots ...

In "Dangerous Liaisons," Pierre Choderlos de Laclos masterfully weaves a narrative that intricately explores the perilous dance of seduction, manipulation, and the intricacies of human relationships in 18th-century France. The epistolary format allows for a rich interplay of voices, as letters between characters reveal their covert intentions, moral dilemmas, and the societal constraints of their aristocratic milieu. The wit and psychological depth present in Laclos's prose not only critiq...

Set in France during the Ancien Régime, Dangerous Liasons is an extraordinary tale of intrigue and moral depravity where our rival protagonists use seduction as a weapon.The Marquise de Mertheuil and the Vicomte de Valmont scheme and plot; one obsessed by her own vanity, the other by his lust for a virtuous, married woman. In the pursuit of their own entertainment, de Mertheuil and de Valmont play a dangerous game of seduction, attempting ...

Published in 1782, just years before the French Revolution, Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. At its centre are two aristocrats, former lovers, who embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded existences. While the Marquise de Merteuil challenges the Vicomte de Valmont to seduce an innocent convent girl, the Vicomte is also occupied with the conquest of a virtuous married woman....

Dangerous Liaisons is set in pre-Revolutionary France and revolves around the manipulative and morally ambiguous schemes of two wealthy and influential characters: the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont. The novel is structured as a series of letters exchanged between the characters, which reveal their intricate and often ruthless plans.Marquise de Merteuil: A cunning and vengeful woman who uses her charm and intelligence to manipulate those around her. She seeks to ruin the r...

You see, my dear friend, that I keep my word to you, and that bonnets and frills do not take up all my time; there will always be some left for you. However, I have seen more adornments in this one single day than in all the four years we passed together; and I think that the superb Tanville will have more vexation at my first visit, when I shall certainly ask to see her, than she has ever fancied that she afforded us, when she used to come and see us infiocchi. Mamma has consulted me in e...

Published in 1782, just years before the French Revolution, Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. At its centre are two aristocrats, former lovers, who embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded existences. While the Marquise de Merteuil challenges the Vicomte de Valmont to seduce an innocent convent girl, the Vicomte is also occupied with the conquest of a virtuous married woman....

"The Marchioness de Merteuil and the Viscount de Valmont are creations without precedent. They are the first [in European literature] whose acts are determined by an ideology." —André Malraux"One of the two greatest French novels." —André Gide"What really keeps 'Dangerous Liaisons' potent after two hundred years is not so much its depiction of sex as its catalog of corruptions, including but not limited to the corruption of language by polite cant and the corruption of morals...

The Greatest Regency Romance Novels gathers a wide-ranging constellation of fiction concerned with courtship, inheritance, reputation, and the perilous negotiations between private feeling and public duty. Its scope extends from epistolary seduction and sentimental self-scrutiny to social comedy, moral realism, satire, and psychological epic, placing Regency romance within a broader European tradition of manners and desire. The collection's significance lies in showing romance not as escap...

"Les Liaisons Dangereuses" by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos is an 18th-century epistolary novel exploring manipulation, seduction, and moral corruption among the French aristocracy.The story unfolds through letters exchanged between the cunning Marquise de Merteuil and the notorious Vicomte de Valmont, former lovers who conspire to corrupt others for amusement and revenge. Their main targets include the virtuous Madame de Tourvel, whom Valmont seeks to seduce, and the innocent young C...