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{ NOV 2021 - Verified ebook for complete book description, cover, table of contents, separation of book (front/ back matter, parts, and chapters), and epub format error checking. } Paperback, 435 pages Published: 1782 Edition: Barnes & Noble Classics (2005) Translated from French by: Ernest Dowson (1898) - original English translation Introduction and Notes by: Alfred Mac Adam (2005) Love . . . sex . . . seduction. Of the three, only the last matters. Love is a meaningless word, and sex an ephemeral pleasure, but seduction is an amusing game in which victory means power and the ability to humiliate one’s enemies and revel with one’s friends. So it is for the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil, two supremely bored aristocrats during the final years before the French Revolution. Together they concoct a wildly wicked wager: If Valmont can successfully seduce the virtuous wife of a government official, Madame de Tourvel, then Madame Merteuil will sleep with him again. But Madame Merteuil also wants Valmont to conquer the young and innocent former convent schoolgirl, Cécile Volanges. Can he do both? When Les Liaisons Dangereuses was first published in 1782, it both scandali

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Author

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Ernest Dowson, Alfred Mac Adam

Publisher

Barnes & Noble Classics

Published

1782

Language

EN

ISBN

9781411432543

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Romance

Rating

4.07 / 5 (166 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14