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Manon Lescaut (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781847498144)
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xWhen the young nobleman Des Grieux lays eyes on the beautiful and charming Manon Lescaut, he immediately falls in love with her, and they elope to Paris, incurring the wrath of his family and forfeiting his inheritance. However, he struggles to satisfy her taste for luxury, frittering away the little he has left, and his domestic bliss finally disintegrates when he finds out that Manon has betrayed him for a rich lover.
Although causing scandal on its initial publication in 1731 and subsequently being banned, Manon Lescaut proved very popular with eighteenth-century readers, and remains one of literature's finest and most evocative depictions of obsessive love.Author: Antoine François Prévost
ISBN-10: 1847498140
ISBN-13: 9781847498144
Publisher: Alma Books
Language: English
Published: 01/14/2020
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.00w x 0.50d
By Antoine François Prévost
xAntoine François Prévost (1697-1763) was a Benedictine monk who left the order, moved to England and the Netherlands and became an author under the name Abbé Prévost. Although best known for his novel Manon Lescaut, he wrote many other volumes of fiction, history and travel writing, as well as translating the works of Samuel Richardson, among others.
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