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Blurb: “TRANSLATED BY P W. K. STONE
When this notorious novel was first published in Paris in 1782, society read it with a snort of moral indignation; forty years later it was condemned as dangerous by government decree.
The book describes through letters how two ruthlessly amoral aristocrats - a man and a woman - plot and achieve the seduction of a young girl for motives of revenge and what can only be described as professional pride in sexual intrigue.
*Mr Stone's translation is quite exceptionally on the whole he respects the French scrupulously and catches the tone of tinkling diabolism' - Observer
The cover shows a detail from Watteau's Le faux pas in the Louvre.”