Download or read book Dangerous Liaisons written by Claudia Moscovici and published by Hamilton Books. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Dangerous Acquaintances written by Choderlos de Laclos and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1961 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epistolary novel chronicles the cruel seduction of a young girl by two ruthless, eighteenth-century aristocrats
Download or read book Dangerous Liaisons written by Choderlos de Laclos and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2009 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Les Liaisons Dangereuses written by Christopher Hampton and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 .
Download or read book Les Liaisons Dangereuses written by Choderlos de Laclos and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dangerous Connections written by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos and published by Aegitas. This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Dangerous Liaisons written by Harold Koda and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2006 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alluring look at the relationship of clothing and interior design in 18th-century France
Download or read book Dangerous Liaisons written by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2025-04-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Dangerous Liasons 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.
Download or read book Unforgivable Love written by Sophfronia Scott and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Marvelously dramatic…brings its era to life with lush detail.” – People Magazine From the author of Wild Beautiful and Free 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.
Download or read book Dangerous Liaisons written by Laura A. McNamara and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dangerous Liaisons is a book about intersections. It is a product of two year's worth of discussion among a group of ethnographers from four different countries studying war, violence, the military, and the state. Throughout the first decade of the twenty-first century, anthropologists have watched with both interest and concern as government agencies--particularly those with military and intelligence functions--have sought their professional assistance in understanding terrorists' motivations, stabilizing nascent wartime governments, and countering insurgencies.
Download or read book Les Liaisons Dangereuses written by Choderlos de Laclos and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daring, original, and highly erotic, this 18th-century novel explores the moral ambiguities of love and revenge in a series of letters that chronicle a ruthless game of seduction and betrayal.
Download or read book Dangerous Liaisons Seduction His Mistress by Blackmail Blackmailed Down the Aisle His Merciless Marriage Bargain written by Maya Blake and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I need you
Download or read book Les Liaisons Dangereuses the Dangerous Liaisons written by Choderlos De Laclos and published by olympiapress.com. This book was released on 2012 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1782, just years before the French Revolution, Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. At its centre are two aristocrats, former lovers, who embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded existences. While the Marquise de Merteuil challenges the Vicomte de Valmont to seduce an innocent convent girl, the Vicomte is also occupied with the conquest of a virtuous married woman. But as their intrigues become more 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 Merteuil and Valmont could have guessed.
Download or read book Dangerous Liaisons written by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-13 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Dangerous Liaisons written by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Deceptive Seduction written by Vel Hobbs and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dangerous Liaisons written by Choderlos de Laclos and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of the French Revolution, the aristocracy was excessively rich and excessively idle. With nothing to do for amusement but meddle in the lives of others, a pair of depraved aristocrats plots and achieves the seduction of a naive 15-year-old convent girl. A recent Broadway hit, now a new movie starrring Glenn Close and John Malkovich.
