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Les Liaisons dangereuses
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Nadine
Mar 07, 2014 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: favorites, historical, group-reads, stand-alones, read-in-2014, ebooks-2014
In diesem Briefroman aus dem 18. Jahrhundert geht es heiß her. Liebe, Tod, Intrigen, und natürlich so einige Affairen... Die Marquise Merteuil stachelt ihren ehemaligen Geliebten Valmont an, den Ruf und die Unschuld der Verlobten des Mannes zu ruinieren, der sie kürzlich verlassen hat. Der wiederum ist aber vollauf damit ausgelastet, eine tugendhafte Ehefrau zu verführen, die sich ihm gegenüber spröde gibt.
Das Beziehungsgeflecht wird immer verwickelter und immer mehr Intrigen werden gesponnen.

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Lynn
May 14, 2016 rated it really liked it
I picked this up as a teen. (What can I say? I was a weird kid. I probably followed it up with one of the Sweet Valley High books or something by Judy Blume.) I can't say that I understood all of it back then, but I was entranced by the language, characters, and era as well as the story of two decadent, fabulously wealthy members of the French nobility who deal with their boredom by toying with other people's lives. I've revisited it several times since then, and I'm always impressed by how well ...more
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Eww
Jul 25, 2015 rated it it was amazing
- A scandalous book to read when you're contemplating whether or
not you should double text.

- Merteuil is my new favourite villan/heroine

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Annette
Jun 21, 2020 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Letters deftly portraying reprehensible characters and their social offenses against one another.
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