Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. David Coward's introduction explodes myths about Laclos's own life and puts the book in its literary and cultural context.ĪBOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. A new translation of one of the most notorious novels of all time Published just years before the French Revolution, Laclos’s great novel of moral and emotional depravity is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. This new translation gives Laclos a modern voice, and readers will be able a judge whether the novel is as `diabolical' and `infamous' as its critics have claimed, or whether it has much to tell us about the kind of world we ourselves live in. The subject of major film and stage adaptations, the novel's prime movers, the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil, form an unholy alliance and turn seduction into a game - a game which they must win. XV hen Pierre Choderlos de Laclos published Les Liaisons dangereuses in 1782, he took his epigraph from Rousseaus Nouvelle Hloise: I have seen the morals.
The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (Book Analysis) Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide DOWNLOAD THIS GUIDE This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.
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