Dangerous Relationship

Author: Zheng Yonghui (Laclos)
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Publish Date: 2002-02-01
Features: A mid-18th-century work, a love story in the form of letters. A couple of love-sick individuals team up to take revenge, turning the romantic battlefield into a warzone, which leads two innocent women to fall into temptation. One becomes melancholic and dies, while the other enters a convent. The novel's structure, plot, and psychological analysis of characters are distinctive and meticulously crafted, receiving passionate praise from the great writer Stendhal and exerting a significant influence on French literature in the 19th and 20th centuries.