From the Bookshelf of Catching up on Classics (and lots more!)…

Dangerous Liaisons

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos,

Helen Constantine (Editor)

Start date: May 1, 2020

Finish date: May 31, 2020

Discussion: Old School Classics, Pre-1915

Why we're reading this: May 2020 Old School Group Read
[close] May 2020 Old School Group Read

Find A Copy At

Libraries

Group Discussions About This Book

Showing 2 of 484 topics — 22,099 comments total

Old School Classics, Pre-1915

This topic has been closed to new comments.

* Finding Old School Book Threads
By Bob , Short Story Classics · 2 posts · 388 views

last updated Jan 31, 2024 06:17PM

Cousin Bette - Spoilers
By Sara , New School Classics · 24 posts · 53 views

last updated Oct 28, 2025 09:51PM

showing 10 of 26 topics view all »

What Members Thought

Sep 20, 2011 Laura rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: bookcrossing, french-literature, 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, read-2011, fiction, book-and-movie

A magnificent book about moral values showing the decadence of the French aristocracy on the eve of the French Revolution. This book is even better than the movie and the audio book as well.

5 likes · Like · see review

Dec 12, 2016 Richard Subber rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

An acquaintance dismissed this voluptuous tale, thus: "All they do is talk."
Let's begin there. The language is rich. I daresay that language becomes an erogenous zone in Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
If you aspire to a working understanding of good and evil, you could do worse than listen to the riveting chatter of the leading personae, who choose each word with careful, deliciously ribald, austerely cruel and domineering intent. You really don't want to be a friend, and you most assuredly don't want ...more

3 likes · Like · see review

Feb 17, 2011 Laura rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: french-literature, 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, read-2011, book-and-movie, audio-books, e-books, gutenberg, 3ms, fiction-18th-century

Free download available at Project Gutenberg.

The jilted Marquise de Merteuil begins a game of seduction and revenge. Choderlos de Laclos's famous story stars Ciaran Hinds.

Available at BBC Radio 7: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n1l2d ...more

3 likes · Like · see review