TY - BOOK AU - Laclos,Choderlos de AU - Dowson,Ernest Christopher TI - Les liaisons dangereuses, volume 1 (of 2): or, Letters collected in a private society and published for the instruction of others AV - PQ PY - 2023/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Epistolary fiction KW - France -- Fiction KW - Man-woman relationships -- Fiction KW - Aristocracy (Social class) -- Fiction KW - Seduction -- Fiction KW - Mock-heroic literature N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Liaisons_dangereuses; Release date is 2023-01-28; Adam Buchbinder, Eleni Christofaki and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net; Originally published; United Kingdom: Privately printed, 1898 N2 - "Les liaisons dangereuses, volume 1 (of 2)" by Choderlos de Laclos is a French epistolary novel published in 1782. Two amoral aristocrats, the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, use seduction and manipulation as weapons in their cruel games. Through letters between characters, the story unfolds as former lovers-turned-rivals scheme to corrupt innocent victims and destroy reputations. Their dangerous liaisons lead to betrayal, revenge, and ultimately their own downfall in this scandalous tale of decadence among the French nobility. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.pgdp.net UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69891 ER -