by Abbé Prévost, Antoine François Prévost · Flammarion · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782080701404
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«Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut» is the novel by Abbé Prévost published by Flammarion in paperback (194 pages, in French).
The novel follows the stormy relationship between the Chevalier des Grieux, a young man from a noble family, and Manon, a girl of humble origins. Their love, marked by passion and ambition, takes them from eighteenth-century France to Louisiana, in a succession of adventures, deceptions and reunions.
The work was originally published in 1731. This edition includes a preface and chronology.
Suitable for readers of European classics and for those studying French literature; it also appeals to opera lovers.
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.
