Les Liaisons dangereuses (Oxford World's Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (870 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199536481 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is the translator and editor of Maupassant, de Sade, and Dumas in World's Classics.. David Coward is Professor of French at the University of Leeds. He is the translator of Nana, Attack on the Mill (Zola) and A Sentimental Journey (Flaubert) for World's Classics. Douglas Parmée is Retired Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge
Paraic Finnerty, University of Portsmouth. . Dr. The Oxford World's Classic edition offers students an excellent introduction to this classic text and also important notes and chronologies
Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.. 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.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Its prime movers, the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil--gifted, wealthy, and bored--form an unholy alliance and turn seduction into a game. The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. In the ensuing battle there can be no winners, and the innocent suffer with the guilty. 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
Wonderful book, massive typographical problems Five stars to Pierre Choderlos de Laclos for his brilliant book, but the text in this edition is ridiculously small. As a college student in my twenties, my eyesight is by no means failing, yet I feel that the font is so unreasonably tiny that reading this book is an actual painful experience. The other typographical problem here is that each. "I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world." That is one of Oscar Wilde's many famous quotes, and if it was true, then Oscar would have been delighted to meet the main characters of LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES. I certainly was.The Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont are wicked, possibly evil, and yet (and this can be attributed to Laclos's literary genius) they will probably be. Laclos' Libertine Lust John Beckham Dangerous Liaisons (1782) is an epistolary novel, the print candy of the voyeur with the slightest degree of imagination. Laclos has penned letters that weave an intricate toile of lives, loves and hates set in French estates, countrysides and city scapes. Letters between the two leads, a lechorous libertine male (gentelman is unwarrented in