Les Liaisons Dangereuses Softcover - 1998

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Fifth Impression. Size: Small Octavo. 402 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages lightly tanned throughout. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. The spine shows no crease marks. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. Its prime movers, the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil--gifted, wealthy, and bored--form an unholy alliance andturn seduction into a game. And they play this game with such wit and style that it is impossible not to admire them, until they discover mysterious rules that they cannot understand. In the ensuing battle there can be no winners, and the innocent suffer with the guilty. This new translation gives Laclos a modern voice, and readers will be able to judge whether the novel is as "diabolical" and "infamous" as its critics have claimed, or whether it has much to tell us about a world we still inhabit. Quantity Available: 1. Category: literature, Literary, Poetry & Drama; Classic Literature; France; 18th century; Fiction. ISBN: 0192838679. ISBN/EAN: 9780192838674. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9557. . 9780192838674