by Antoine François Prévost · Librio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782290336229
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«Manon Lescaut» is the classic novel by Antoine François Prévost (Abbé Prévost), published by Librio in paperback (162 pages, in French).
The young chevalier Des Grieux, fresh out of school, falls hopelessly in love with Manon Lescaut, destined for the convent; together they flee. Manon craves luxury and pleasures; Des Grieux loves her to the point of forgetting his destiny and falling into deceit and misery. Manon Lescaut tells of an absolute passion and its consequences, between happiness and torment.
Manon Lescaut was originally published in 1731 under the title «Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut»; this Librio edition reproduces the complete text.
Suitable for readers of French classics and for students approaching eighteenth-century literature.
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.
