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This West End and Broadway hit is based upon a decadent French novel of 1782. Seductions and double crosses abound, which playwright Hampton makes presage the French Revolution. It has been filmed thrice, but not well. Heard here is a BBC production performed with near perfection by a spirited cast directed by Gordon House. The audio is a good deal sexier than the other dramatizations, thanks to the innate suggestiveness of the medium. However, nothing in the script or playing is cheap. On the contrary, its sophistication only emphasizes the tawdriness of the empty, exploitive amusements of the aristocratic generation that would die by the guillotine. Y.R. Winner of AUDIOFILE Earphones Award. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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"Christopher Hampton's brilliant adaptation...gives a pitiless and searching portrait of the erotic diversions of aristocrats in putrescent pre-revolutionary France." --Daily Telegraph

"Hampton's achievement is to have preserved the satanic magnetism of the twin conspirators while going all out for social comedy. But this is comedy of the highest theatrical kind: edged with danger, replete with pain and forever reminding us that lives are being ruined with the flick of a well-turned phrase." --Guardian
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Well, Sophie dear, as you see, I'm keeping my word and not spending all my time on bonnets and bows, I'll always have some to spare for you! Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Madame de Tourvel, Monsieur de Valmont, Madame de Rosemonde, Madame de Volanges, Madame de Merteuil, Chevalier Danceny, Cécile Volanges, Monsieur Danceny, Les Liaisons, Mademoiselle de Volanges, Monsieur de Gercourt, Sophie Carnay, Mademoiselle Julie, Monsieur de Prévan, Father Anselme, Comte de Gercourt, Monsieur Bertrand, Monsieur de Merteuil, Public Prosecutor New!
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