Dangerous ties. Shorello de Laclo

The original gift edition in leather binding, with a tripartite gold wipes and with pancake embossing on the cover.

“Dangerous connections” - one of those immortal masterpieces of world literature, which are still read with unhappy attention and interest. This novel in letters is the only book of the French officer Pierre Shorel de Laclo, whose peak was the rank of general of the Napoleonic army. For the first time published in 1782, the book was a huge success, accompanied by a grand scandal in a society, allegedly caused by its “immorality.”

the heroes of the novel, which shine in the Parisian light, the aristocrats Vacont de Valmon and the Marquis de Mertey, start a cunning intrigue In order to seduce the young Cecil de Vollange. However, gradually the search for pleasure leads to the struggle not to life, but to death.