by Abbé Prévost · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253009849
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«Manon Lescaut» is the novel by French writer Abbé Prévost, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback format (255 pages, in French).
The novel follows the Chevalier Des Grieux, who abandons his ecclesiastical destiny for Manon Lescaut, a beautiful young woman of ambiguous morality. Their love leads them through deceit, debts and flights in eighteenth-century Paris, and shows how passion clashes with social conventions and drags them towards irreparable decisions.
Work originally published in 1731 under the title «Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut». This Le Livre de Poche edition offers the complete text.
Ideal for students of French and readers of eighteenth-century classics; also of interest to opera enthusiasts.
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.
