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Author : Choderlos de Laclos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCBK:C005061630
Author : Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Choderlos de Laclos
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Christopher Hampton
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : Choderlos de Laclos
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Aristocracy (Social class)
ISBN : 0140624481
For the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont seduction is a game - the former lovers relish manipulating others to bring amusement to their jaded existences. While Valmont is determined to succeed in his conquest of a virtuous married woman, Merteuil challenges him to seduce an innocent convent girl who it to be married to her former lover. As their intrigues become increasingly duplicitous and they find their human pawns responding in ways they could not have predicted, the consequences prove to be more serious, and deadly, than the two conspirators could have guessed. Depicting decadence and moral corruption in pre-revolutionary France, Dangerous Liaisons (1782) is one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature.
Author : Sophfronia Scott
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062655677
“Marvelously dramatic…brings its era to life with lush detail.” – People Magazine In this vivid reimagining of the French classic Les Liaisons Dangereuses, it’s the summer when Jackie Robinson breaks Major League Baseball’s color barrier and a sweltering stretch has Harlem’s elite fleeing the city for Westchester County’s breezier climes, two predators stalk amidst the manicured gardens and fine old homes. Heiress Mae Malveaux rules society with an angel’s smile and a heart of stone. She made up her mind long ago that nobody would decide her fate. To have the pleasure she craves, control is paramount, especially control of the men Mae attracts like moths to a flame. Valiant Jackson always gets what he wants—and he’s wanted Mae for years. The door finally opens for him when Mae strikes a bargain: seduce her virginal young cousin, Cecily, who is engaged to Frank Washington. Frank values her innocence above all else. If successful, Val’s reward will be a night with Mae. But Val secretly seeks another prize. Elizabeth Townsend is fiercely loyal to her church and her civil rights attorney husband. Certain there is something redeemable in Mr. Jackson. Little does she know that her worst mistake will be Val’s greatest triumph.
Author : Brian Nelson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : Fred Piper,Sean Murphy
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05-30
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780191577758
This book is a clear and informative introduction to cryptography and data protection - subjects of considerable social and political importance. It explains what algorithms do, how they are used, the risks associated with using them, and why governments should be concerned. Important areas are highlighted, such as Stream Ciphers, block ciphers, public key algorithms, digital signatures, and applications such as e-commerce. This book highlights the explosive impact of cryptography on modern society, with, for example, the evolution of the internet and the introduction of more sophisticated banking methods. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Guy de Maupassant
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788726666663
Despite quietly loathing his wife’s penchant for fake jewellery, Mr and Mrs Lantin are happily married. When she dies, finances force him to sell her gems and he discovers that one of them is not only real but worth a significant sum of money. What keeps niggling Mr Lantin is that he didn’t buy it for her – so who did? ‘The Fake Gems’ is a cautionary short story from the pen of a master. The perfect addition to any collection of Maupassant’s works. Hailed as one of the pioneers of the modern short story, Henri Ren Albert Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893) was born in Dieppe, France. After his parents’ divorce, Maupassant was cared for by his mother who had a passion for literature. During his secondary education, he was introduced to the acclaimed novelist, Gustave Flaubert, who was to play a prominent part in Maupassant’s literary career. The Franco-Prussian War saw the author enlist in the Navy, and his experiences influenced many of his books, including ‘Boule de Suif.’ Flaubert was to take him under his wing after the war, introducing him to realist and naturalist authors, such as Émile Zola and Ivan Turgenev.
Author : Mary Lindemann
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801889202
The acclaimed historian “creatively use[s] the real-life murder of Count Joseph Visconti . . . to examine 18th-century European life and politics” (Library Journal). In Liaisons Dangereuses, Mary Lindemann examines the mysterious circumstances surrounding the murder of a counterfeit Milanese count, Joseph Visconti, at the hands of a Prussian nobleman, the Baron von Kesslitz. Lindmann vividly reconstructs the drama from the perspectives of the count, the baron, the Spanish consul in Hamburg Antoine Ventura de Sanpelayo, and a courtesan named Anna Maria Romellini. Lindemann explores the historical currents that swept these individuals together and the effects of their fateful encounter on Hamburg’s public, its government, and its diplomatic standing across Europe. Each person involved in the crime is profiled in detail, showing how their individual lives fit into the larger picture of eighteenth-century society. What actually took place on that fateful night in October 1775? All Hamburg buzzed with rumors, but no definitive conclusion was reached. Nevertheless, the case that developed around the killing of Visconti provides fascinating insights into the diplomatic, cultural, legal, social, and political dynamics of late eighteenth century Europe.
Author : Louis de Rouvroy duc de Saint-Simon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : France
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117489877
Author : Jean Racine
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992-03-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780140445916
Racine’s play Phèdre—which draws on Euripides’ tragedy Hippolytus—is the supreme achievement of French neoclassic theater. In her amusing foreword, Margaret Rawlings explains how this particular translation—made specifically from the actor’s point-of-view—evolved from the 1957 Campbell Allen production. Containing both the French and English texts on facing pages, as well as Racine’s own preface and notes on his contemporary and classical references, this edition of Phèdre is a favorite among modern readers and is of special value to students, amateur companies, and repertory theaters alike. Translated and with a foreword by Margaret Rawlings.
Author : Peter Brooks
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691648712
Contending that a search for "realism" distorts the writing of Crébillon, Marivaux, Laclos, and Stendahl, Peter Brooks considers their novels with reference to the manner in which the characters explore their worth and pursue their own systems of relationships. The novels discussed are used as examples of the fictional exploitation of the drama inherent in man's social existence and the encounters of personal styles within the framework and code provided by a coterie which is an object of conscious cultivation for its own sake. The author gives detailed readings of the four authors’ works and moves backward to consider the seventeenth-century moralistes and the drawing rooms in which literary forms applied to social man were eloquently elaborated. Originally published in 1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Lucinda Brant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Historical fiction
ISBN : 0987073818
A classic romance in the tradition of Georgette Heyer Winner of the $10,000 Woman's Day/Random House Romantic Fiction Prize Romantic Book of the Year Finalist - Romance Writers Australia It's 1745, the age of hedonism and enlightenment. A young girl is abandoned at the court of Versailles. The predatory Comte de Salvan plots her seduction. An all-powerful adversary snatches her to safety. But is he noble savior or a satyr most despicable?
Author : Luisa Passerini,Liliana Ellena,Alexander C.T. Geppert
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-30
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.