by Antoine-Francois Prevost · FLAMMARION · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782080708533
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«Histoire du chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut» is the novel by Antoine-François Prévost, published by Flammarion in paperback, in French.
The chevalier Des Grieux abandons family and social position to join Manon Lescaut, a courtesan with whom he falls deeply in love. Their relationship, marked by poverty and rejection of convention, drags them to a tragic fate in the New World. The work, originally published in 1731, is a French classic also recreated in opera.
It belongs to Flammarion's GF collection (no. 853), edited by Jean Sgard; 286 pages. Also known as «Manon Lescaut».
Aimed at readers of classics and students of eighteenth-century French literature, as well as those seeking tragic love stories.
Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles, usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost, was a French priest, author, and novelist. He is best remembered for Manon Lescaut (1731), a romance and adventure novel, the most reprinted novel in French literary history.
