Les Liaisons Dangereuses

by Choderlos de Laclos, Ernest Dowson

Overview

Published in 1782, just before the French Revolution, Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. At its centre are two aristocrats, former lovers, who embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded existences. While the Marquise de Merteuil challenges the Vicomte de Valmont to seduce an innocent convent girl, the Vicomte is also occupied with the conquest of a virtuous married woman. But as their intrigues become more duplicitous and they find their human pawns responding in ways they could not have predicted, the consequences prove to be more serious, and deadly, than Merteuil and Valmont could have guessed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608727735
Publisher:	Olympia Press
Publication date:	12/07/2015
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	594 KB

About the Author

Christopher Hampton was born in the Azores in 1946. He wrote his first play, When Did You Last See Your Mother? at the age of eighteen. His work for the theatre, television and cinema includes The Philanthropist, adaptations of Ibsen and Moliere, and the screenplays Dangerous Liaisons, Carrington and The Secret Agent, the last two of which he also directed.