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Dangerous Liaisons — Laclos’s epistolary novel, published in 1782
One hundred and seventy-five letters and its author’s only novel, printed in two thousand copies and sold out within weeks; a second, corrected edition was agreed, and sixteen editions appeared under the same date, most of them pirated. The title page bears a false Amsterdam imprint and only the author’s initials. (Editorial synthesis)
Dangerous Liaisons was published in 1782. (source: Encyclopædia Universalis)
Recorded author of Dangerous Liaisons: Laclos.
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