by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos · Routledge · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780744800760
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«Les Liaisons Dangereuses» is the epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, published by Routledge in paperback (448 pages, in English).
Set in eighteenth-century France, this epistolary novel, known in Spanish as «Las amistades peligrosas», follows two aristocrats who plot the seduction of an innocent young woman as part of a power game. The correspondence between the characters reveals a web of deceit, appearances and manipulations from which no one emerges unscathed.
This English translation by Richard Aldington was first published in 1924; the original novel dates from 1782.
Edition aimed at university students and readers of eighteenth-century French literature.
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).
