The Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil, former lovers and practised libertines, amuse themselves by plotting the ruin of others: a convent-fresh girl promised in marriage, and the devout Madame de Tourvel. Everything unfolds through their letters and those of their victims, so the reader watches each lie being written and each heart being read.
The great epistolary novel of the French Enlightenment, as cold and clever in English as in French. Download the free EPUB.