For the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont seduction is a game - the former lovers relish manipulating others to bring amusement to their jaded existences. While Valmont is determined to succeed in his conquest of a virtuous married woman, Merteuil challenges him to seduce an innocent convent girl who it to be married to her former lover. As their intrigues become increasingly 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 the two conspirators could have guessed. Depicting decadence and moral corruption in pre-revolutionary France, "Dangerous Liaisons" (1782) is one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature.
- ISBN10 0140624481
- ISBN13 9780140624489
- Publish Date 26 February 2009 (first published 1 January 2004)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 April 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Penguin Classics
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 400
- Language English