Les liaisons dangereuses, volume 1 (of 2) or, Letters collected in a private society and published for the instruction of others by Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900 [Translator], Laclos, Choderlos de, 1741-1803 is presented here as a catalogued digital edition in the Historical, Psychological & Social Fiction section of ucobe.com.

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The extracted text contains approximately 84,561 words, corresponding to an estimated 368 minutes of reading, and is divided into 99 detectable text sections. These figures describe the downloaded text file rather than a printed pagination system.

The automated text analysis reports an average sentence length of about 22.8 words and a measured lexical-diversity value of 0.070. These measurements are descriptive reading aids, not literary ratings.

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The source record associates this edition with the following subjects: Epistolary fiction, France -- Fiction, Man-woman relationships -- Fiction, Aristocracy (Social class) -- Fiction, Seduction -- Fiction, Mock-heroic literature. Catalog terms may reflect historical library practice and can be broader or narrower than a modern reader’s interpretation.

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