Description
In this razor-edged classic of French literature, two aristocrats—Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont—wage a dangerous game of seduction and manipulation, turning desire into a weapon and reputation into currency. As their carefully staged liaisons ripple outward, a web of letters, rivalries, and moral compromises tightens, testing how far people will go to control one another. The novel probes themes of power, hypocrisy, and the performance of virtue, revealing how social status can both enable cruelty and magnify its consequences. Written with Laclos’s sharp psychological insight and epistolary brilliance, it remains a chilling study of strategy, intimacy, and the cost of treating love as a conquest.
Available Editions
paperback
Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
Published Jan 1, 2025
424 pages
ISBN: 9781454958987
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Details
First Published
2025
Language
fra
Translation
From: fra
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.