Les liaisons dangereuses

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Original title: Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Play)

first published 1980 Faber and Faber, 1985 103 pages

Actes sud-Papiers (Series)

Le Vicomte de Valmont begins the play as an unworthy, cynical pleasure-seeker, proud of his reputation as a seducer. He is encouraged in his enterprises by his former mistress, La Marquise de Merteuil, who would seem to share his cynicism, but who has an ulterior motive. Set in France among aristocrats before the Revolution, this is nevertheless a play for all time about sexual manners and manipulation, ending in tra...

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Les liaisons dangereuses edition · 1988 · Actes sud-Papiers · 74 pages
Les Liaisons Dangereuses edition · 1986 · Samuel French Ltd · 71 pages
Les liaisons dangereuses edition · 1985 · Faber and Faber · 103 pages

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