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A reading reveals that the "good" characters are not naive fools; they are intellectual counterweights. The complete text forces you to sit with the horror of innocence being systematically dismantled, rather than just seeing the result. Without the full letters, Valmont is just a scoundrel; with the full text, he is a tragic study in wasted potential.
More than two centuries after Pierre Choderlos de Laclos first published his epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses dangerous liaisons full
The novel is composed of 175 letters. In many abridged versions or early censored translations, publishers removed the "boring" letters—the philosophical monologues, the slow-burn social maneuvering, and the letters from the virtuous Madame de Tourvel. By cutting these, they destroyed the book’s tension. A reading reveals that the "good" characters are