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Dangerous Connections - Dangerous Connections (French: Les Liaisons dangereuses) is a French epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, first published in four volumes by Durand Neveu from March 23, 1782. It is the story of the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, two rivals (and ex-lovers) who use seduction as a weapon to humiliate and degrade others, all the while enjoying their cruel games and boasting about their manipulative talents. It has been claimed to depict the decadence of the French aristocracy shortly before the French Revolution, thereby exposing the perversions of the so-called Ancien Régime. However, it has also been described as an amoral story. As an epistolary novel, the book is composed entirely of letters written by the various characters to each other. In particular, the letters between Valmont and the Marquise drive the plot, with those of their victims and other characters serving as contrasting figures to give the story its depth. It is often claimed to be the source of the saying "Revenge is a dish best served cold", a paraphrased translation of "La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid" (more literally, "Revenge is a dish that is eaten cold"). However, the expression does not actually occur in the original novel in any form. Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos (18 October 1741 - 5 September 1803) was a French novelist, official, freemason and army general, best known for writing the epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) (1782). A unique case in French literature, he was for a long time considered to be as scandalous a writer as the Marquis de Sade or Nicolas-Edme Rétif. He was a military officer with no illusions about human relations, and an amateur writer; however, his initial plan was to "write a work which departed from the ordinary, which made a noise, and which would remain on earth after his death"; from this point of view he mostly attained his goal.

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Dangerous Liaisons, novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, first published in 1782 as Les Liaisons dangereuses. The work, also translated as Dangerous Acquaintances, is considered one of the earliest examples of the psychological novel. Laclos’s first novel, Dangerous Liaisons caused an immediate sensation. Written in epistolary form, it deals with the seducer Valmont and his accomplice, Madame de Merteuil, who surpasses him in decadence and evil. Both take unscrupulous delight in their victims’ misery, their pleasure being proportional to the difficulty of the conquest. Madame de Merteuil, secretly seeking vengeance for Valmont’s earlier rejection of her, masterfully arranges for Valmont’s death at her current lover’s hand. She revels in his death and in the destruction of others yet is herself destroyed in the end: ostracized for her machinations, disfigured by smallpox, and left in financial ruin. Includes vintage illustration! Paperback, Label: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Product group: Book, Published: 2018-03-13, Studio: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.

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What is a novel? A correct picture of morals put in motion-What should be the aim of a novel? To blend instruction with amusement-When the morals of the actors are corrupt, is it allowable, with deference to decency, to draw them in their proper shades and colours? Undoubtedly it is; but with the greatest caution, lest by giving vice, whose contagion must be dreaded, its true, though seducing and agreeable aspect, without resisting, diminishing, or rendering useless, the effect it may produce by the contrast of gentleness, peace, and happiness, which virtue secures.

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Dangerous-Connections~~Pierre-Choderlos-De-Laclos, Dangerous Connections, NOOK Book (eBook).

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Dangerous-Connections~~Pierre-Choderlos-De-Laclos, Dangerous Connections, Paperback.

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Dangerous ConnectionsBy Pierre Choderlos De Laclos.