Liaisons Dangereuses, Les

Laclos, Choderlos de; Stone, P.W.K. (translated wiht an introduction by)

ISBN 10: 0140441166 / ISBN 13: 9780140441161

Published by Penguin Books, London UK, 1961

About this Item

396 pages. Light wear to spine-ends and covers' corners o/w a very clean, very tidy copy. (Another Penguin copy in very good ++ condition, 7 inches tall, 1987 reprint available for £3.95.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Liaisons Dangereuses, Les
• Publisher: Penguin Books, London UK
• Publication Date: 1961
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140441166
• ISBN 13: 9780140441161
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Reprint
• Condition: Very Good +

About this title

Synopsis

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. But as their intrigues become more 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 Merteuil and Valmont could have guessed.

About the Author

Choderlos de Laclos was born in 1741, at Amiens. He entered the army at the age of 18 and reached the rank of capitaine-commandant without seeing battle. In 1779 he was sent to the island of Aix, where 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' was written. He diedin 1803. Dr P.W. K. Stone was Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Kent at Canterbury.