| | Dangerous Liaisons |  | Author: Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos De Laclos
Creator: P.w.k. Stone
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 491738
Media: Paperback
Pages: 400
ISBN: 0140116370
EAN: 9780140116373
ASIN: 0140116370
Publication Date: August 1, 1961
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An Immoral Tale January 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Penguin here give us a new translation of Dangerous Liasions that is very good. M Laclos apparently said that he wanted to write a book that would stand out and cause a stir after he was dead. I suspect that he didn't expect people to be avidly reading it over 200 years later and still enjoying it.
What Laclos gives us is a story in the epistolary form of what happens when people are rich and titled and have become bored, looking for new ways to entertain themsleves; much as the Marquis de Sade wrote about. Two people a man and a woman, go about taking people's virginity, causing a stir and scandal amongst others, in an attempt to outdo each other. Of course things don't always run smoothly between these two people, with disastrous results.
Although this book was written in the eighteenth century it still carries a resonance in todays world. There are people out there who take advantage of others and play games like those in this book, with no idea or care of the trouble they cause, and that is why this book has remained so popular. Laclos did more than write a book of his times but did something special, he wrote a book for all times.
Be warned this book will shock you and make you laugh, due to its darkly black humour, but you will not be able to stop yourself from reading it cover to cover, and re-reading it again and again. This a definite must have for any bookcase.
EXQUISITE November 26, 2007
ESSENTIAL FOR A DESERT ISLAND- SEXUAL POLITICS AR THEIR MOST INTRIGUING-LECLOS GETS DOWN AND DIRTY ALL ENCOMPASSED IN DECOUROUS LETTERS AND MESSAGES-FASCINATING-LOVED IT
Excellent August 31, 2003
3 out of 10 found this review helpful
Excellent performance. It really gets you hooked. The music intermezzos are well chosen and add to the building of the climax of the story.
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