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Author : Choderlos de Laclos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCBK:C005061630
Author : Choderlos de Laclos
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664188878
Dangerous Connections: A Series of Letters by Choderlos de Laclos is a compelling exploration of love, intrigue, and societal constructs. Through a series of letters, de Laclos masterfully portrays the complexities of relationships, power dynamics, and the human psyche, making it a profound read for those seeking depth and introspection.
Author : Sidney Bristol
Publisher : Inked Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Being a bodyguard to an internet celebrity should be a walk in the park. At least that's what Marine Silas Herrera tells himself when he agrees to escort the woman he's never heard of on some kind of press grab. He doesn't much care about how beautiful a woman is if she's rotten on the inside. Ekko Kaur is playing chicken with a country, and she's not about to blink. With cameras aimed at her she knows her former home country can't make a move and silence her like they've done to so many others. Like her brother. Now if a certain hunky, obnoxious someone would just stay out of her way. The simple bodyguard job turns complicated when Silas discovers that Ekko is smuggling people out of the country. And not just anyone. Whistleblowers scheduled to testify at the United Nations. His camera hungry client isn't at all what she appears and very soon he finds himself falling for the woman the world doesn't know. But he has to keep her alive first.
Author : Claudia Moscovici
Publisher : Hamilton Books
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780761855705
What do Scott Peterson, Neil Entwistle and timeless literary seducers epitomized by Don Juan and Casanova have in common? They are charismatic, glib and seductive men who also embody the most dangerous human qualities: a breathtaking callousness, shallowness of emotion and the incapacity to love. In other words, these men are psychopaths. Unfortunately, most psychopaths don’t advertise themselves as heartless social predators. They come across as charming, intelligent, romantic and kind. Through their believable “mask of sanity,” they lure many of us into their dangerous nets. Dangerous Liaisons explains clearly what psychopaths are, why they act the way they do, how they attract us and whom they tend to target. Above all, this book helps victims find the strength to end their toxic relationships with psychopaths and move on, stronger and wiser, with the rest of their lives.
Author : Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783752409444
Reproduction of the original: Dangerous Connections, v. 1, 2, 3, 4 by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Author : Choderlos de Laclos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1812
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:N10732199
Author : M. C..... de L...
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1784
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0025690884
Author : Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780191560439
The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. The subject of major film and stage adaptations, the novel's prime movers, the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil, form an unholy alliance and turn seduction into a game - a game which they must win. This new translation gives Laclos a modern voice, and readers will be able a judge whether the novel is as `diabolical' and `infamous' as its critics have claimed, or whether it has much to tell us about the kind of world we ourselves live in. David Coward's introduction explodes myths about Laclos's own life and puts the book in its literary and cultural context. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. 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, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : Luisa Passerini,Liliana Ellena,Alexander C.T. Geppert
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845459765
In Europe, love has been given a prominent place in European self-representations from the Enlightenment onwards. The category of love, stemming from private and personal spheres, was given a public function and used to distinguish European civilisation from others. Contributors to this volume trace historical links and analyse specific connections between the two discourses on love and Europe over the course of the twentieth century, exploring the distinctions made between the public and private, the political and personal. In doing so, this volume develops an innovative historiography that includes such resources as autobiographies, love letters, and cinematic representations, and takes issue with the exclusivity of Eurocentrism. Its contributors put forth hypotheses about the historical pre-eminence of emotions and consider this history as a basis for a non-Eurocentric understanding of new possible European identities.
Author : Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781398813328
Set in France during the Ancien Régime, Dangerous Liasons is an extraordinary tale of intrigue and moral depravity where our rival protagonists use seduction as a weapon. The Marquise de Mertheuil and the Vicomte de Valmont scheme and plot; one obsessed by her own vanity, the other by his lust for a virtuous, married woman. In the pursuit of their own entertainment, de Mertheuil and de Valmont play a dangerous game of seduction, attempting to manipulate the objects of their desire for their own gain. Deemed in later years to be something of a political novel that showed the aristocracy for what it really was, this is also a powerful psychological drama showing that those who live by the sword, often die by it. This edition is presented with a striking contemporary cover-design, bringing this timeless classic to modern readers.
Author : Christopher Hampton
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780571318216
The scandalous reputation of Laclos's novel, first published in 1782, is based on its chilling portrayal of the mannered decadence and sexual cynicism of the French aristocracy in the last years of the ancien regime. Christopher Hampton has made a masterful adaptation for the stage of the conspiracy to corrupt a young girl barely out of her convent. Les liaisons dangereuses was premiered by Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, on 24 September 1985, and won Christopher Hampton the Evening Standard Award for Best Play and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play in 1986 .
Author : Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066396084
Dangerous Liaisons is the story of the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, two narcissistic rivals (and ex-lovers) who use seduction as a weapon to socially control and exploit others, all the while enjoying their cruel games and boasting about their manipulative talents. It has been seen as depicting the decadence of the French aristocracy shortly before the French Revolution, thereby exposing the perversions of the so-called Ancien Régime.
Author : Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Publisher : Aegitas
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780369401243
Dangerous Liaisons is a 1988 American period romantic drama film directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay by Christopher Hampton, based on his play Les liaisons dangereuses, which was itself adapted from the 18th-century French novel of the same name by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. It stars Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Swoosie Kurtz, Mildred Natwick, Peter Capaldi, Keanu Reeves and Uma Thurman. Dangerous Liaisons was released theatrically on December 16, 1988, by Warner Bros. It received generally positive reviews from critics with praise for Close and 's and Pfeiffer and 's performances and the screenplay, production values and costumes. Although it was a moderate commercial success grossing $34.7 million against its $14 million budget, it was cited as a box office disappointment. The film received seven nominations at the 61st Academy Awards, including for Best Picture and won three: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Costume Design, and Best Production Design.
Author : Brian Nelson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521887083
An engaging, highly accessible and informative introduction to French literature from the Middle Ages to the present.
Author : Kevin Casas-Zamora
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815725305
The relationship between criminal syndicates and politicians has a long history, including episodes even from the earliest years of America's colonies. But while organized crime may not get the headlines it once did in North America, the resurgence of such criminal activity in Latin America, and in some European nations, has grabbed the public's attention. In Dangerous Liaisons noted scholars describe and analyze the role of organized crime in the financing of politics in selected democracies in Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Mexico) and in Europe (Bulgaria and Italy). The book seeks to unravel the myths that have developed around crime in these locales, while providing facts and informing the debate on how organized crime corrupts democratic institutions, especially in relation to the funding of political parties and their activities. Among the subjects studied in detail are the role of organized crime in political finance through the lens of Argentina's presidential campaigns of 1999 and 2007; Brazil's elected officeholders and their role in corruption; the weakness of Colombia's democracy; the growing role of money in Costa Rica's politics; the destructive effects of drug money on Mexican institutions; the link between organized crime—narrowly and broadly understood—and political financing in Bulgaria; and crime and political finance in Italy. The work of the scholars corrects what volume editor Kevin Casas-Zamora calls "a glaring gap in the literature on the role of organized crime in the corruption of democratic institutions." That is, the funding of political parties and their activities—which in these cases are mostly election campaigns. The chapters not only present the evidence but also can be regarded as a call to action. Contributors include Leonardo Curzio (CISAN/UNAM), Donatella della Porta (European University Institute), Delia Ferreira Rubio (a member of the international board of directors of Transparency International), Mauricio Rubio (a researcher at the External University of Colombia), Daniel Smilov (Center for Liberal Strategies, Sofia), Bruno Wilhelm Speck (University of Campinas), and Alberto Vannucci (University of Pisa).