by Abbé Prévost · GRANDS TEXTES · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782876284401
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«Manon Lescaut» is the classic French novel by Abbé Prévost, published by GRANDS TEXTES in paperback (255 pages, in French).
The chevalier Des Grieux falls hopelessly in love with Manon, a young woman of humble origins, and their relationship becomes trapped between passion, deceit and social pressure in eighteenth-century France. The lovers' ambition and choices drag them towards a tragic fate, in a novel narrated in the first person with dramatic intensity.
The work was originally published in 1731; this 1992 edition includes black-and-white illustrations by Tony Johannot.
For readers who value classic works of fiction and passions with irremediable consequences.
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.
