Dangerous ties

"Dangerous ties" - a novel, published in 1782 in Paris, became the most readable and most discussed -scandalous. This masterpiece of world literature has not lost its severity now. It is no accident that the novel was filmed 13 times. This is the "dangerous ties of 1960" R. Vadim, and "Valmon" M. Forman, and "Cruel Games", in which the action was postponed in our time, and the film by Stephen Frirs of 1988 with Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer in main roles.
France of the XVIII century. The young Cecil Mother takes the young Cecil from the monastery to marry. And a couple of exquisite -disturbed villains - the Marquis de Mertey and Viscount de Valmon - do everything to carry out their insidious plans. They break their life to a young girl, upset her wedding. They corrupt the married God -fearing ladies, demonstrating knowledge of all the features and subtleties of seduction.
A real school in the conquest of hearts. The author, in the preface, cites the opinion of one of the mothers about the book: I would think that I would provide my daughter’s service if I let her read it on the day of her marriage. It would now be a reasonable step