Dangerous Liaisons

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

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Two of literature’s great predators, the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, were once lovers and are now co-conspirators who treat seduction as sport and other people as pieces on a board. Told entirely through their letters and those of their victims, the novel follows Valmont’s campaign to ruin a virtuous married woman and corrupt a convent-raised girl, all while the Marquise keeps her own private score. Beneath the wit and the elegant French manners runs a cold study of vanity, revenge, and the cruelty that boredom can breed among the idle rich. First published in 1782, it scandalized pre-Revolutionary France and remains one of the sharpest novels ever written about desire and power. Free to download as a PDF or EPUB.

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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741 to 1803) was a French army officer and writer remembered almost entirely for one book, Les Liaisons dangereuses. He later served the Revolution and Napoleon as an artillery general, having helped develop the modern hollow cannonball.

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Dangerous Liaisons (1898) is a public domain work.

#	Chapter	Length
1	Introduction and dramatis personae	14:45
2	Letters 01 to 05	27:47
3	Letters 06 to 10	34:05
4	Letters 11 to 15	16:48
5	Letters 16 to 20	19:49
6	Letters 21 to 25	39:24
7	Letters 26 to 30	17:47
8	Letters 31 to 35	32:53
9	Letters 36 to 39	20:50
10	Letters 40 to 45	45:41
11	Letters 46 to 50	21:36
12	Letters 51 to 55	26:31
13	Letters 56 to 60	21:46
14	Letters 61 to 65	33:38
15	Letters 66 to 70	24:28
16	Letters 71 to 75	28:51
17	Letters 76 to 80	58:44
18	Letters 81 to 84	52:26
19	Letters 85 to 90	47:45
20	Letters 91 to 95	19:29
21	Letters 96 to 100	1:07:31
22	Letters 101 to 105	43:09
23	Letters 106 to 110	40:31
24	Letters 111 to 115	39:26
25	Letters 116 to 120	18:19
26	Letters 121 to 125	54:18
27	Letters 126 to 130	27:32
28	Letters 131 to 135	33:49
29	Letters 136 to 140	29:22
30	Letters 141 to 145	28:24
31	Letters 146 to 150	26:05
32	Letters 151 to 155	31:27
33	Letters 156 to 160	14:41
34	Letters 161 to 165	20:47
35	Letters 166 to 170	21:48
36	Letters 171 to 175	23:47