by Abbe Prevost · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782081285866
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«Manon Lescaut» is the novel by Abbé Prévost, published by French and European Publications Inc in paperback (234 pages, in French).
The Chevalier des Grieux recounts how he meets Manon Lescaut, a beautiful young woman seduced by pleasure and luxury. His passion leads him to renounce his family, fortune and position, and to live a relationship marked by lies and flight. Set in France and Louisiana, the work describes the conflict between absolute love and social conventions.
Work originally published in 1731 as «Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut»; this French edition is part of the Étonnants Classiques collection and includes the complete text.
For students of French literature and readers of eighteenth-century classics seeking a story of love and passion.
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.
