by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140441161
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«Les Liaisons Dangereuses» is the epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (400 pages, in English).
Epistolary novel portraying the moral decadence of eighteenth-century French aristocracy through the letters between the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, two libertines who plot a game of seduction and manipulation. Their intrigues reveal the hypocrisy of a society headed for the Revolution.
The work, originally published in 1782, is presented here in English with translation and introduction by P. W. K. Stone.
For readers of European classics who appreciate the epistolary novel and the portrayal of customs.
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).
