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This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of dangerous liaisons. Sexual innuendo leaps from the pages of this beautifully written epistolary novel. This book must have caused quite a stir when it was first printed in the late 1700s. Written in epistolary form, it deals with the seducer valmont and his.
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