Ldp Classiques: Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Paperback)

from William345

An absolutely magnificent novel! To think that it was published in 1782, seven years before the French Revolution. Liberté, égalité, fraternité! It has thus been argued that the novel caught a doomed aristocracy amidst decadent and libertine ways that would soon be its undoing. The gift the novel...

from Stormrose

7/20 Just read it. It's good for you. And by good, I mean...well...not good precisely, since the entire novel is devoid of any kind of morality, but the story is brilliant, the writing is brilliant, and the portrayal of manipulation is just brilliant. A book to make you wonder what love us, and i...

from joe_saltears

Well, a masterpiece is a masterpiece. This was the book that showed me the beauty of the epistolary literature. Before I used to think that letters were boring. Let the author prove you wrong on this one. It was instant love from the second letter. I read the opening lines "ma tres cher viconte" ...

from quaintlittlehead

"Les liaisons dangereuses" tells the shocking story of two friends who amuse themselves by pursuing sexual relationships for the sole purpose of gaining power and destroying the character of their victims. Using an epistolary style that implicates the reader in making him read about events that w...

from Cait86

Dangerous Liaisons is another book on the 1001 list, and one that rightfully deserves to be there, IMHO. It is an epistolary novel (a novel composed all of letters), which is one of my favourite forms (Austen's Lady Susan, Shelley's Frankenstein). Written in the late 1700s, Dangerous Liaisons is ...