Manon Lescaut: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
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Manon Lescaut is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Prévost, abbé (1697–1763).
Catalogue synopsis
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"Manon Lescaut" by Abbé Prévost is a novel first published in 1731. It tells the tragic love story of a young nobleman and a common woman who choose to live together unmarried, beginning a moral descent into gambling, fraud, and crime. Their passionate relationship leads them from Paris to imprisonment and ultimately to deportation in New Orleans. Narrated retrospectively by the Chevalier des Grieux, this confessional tale shocked eighteenth-century readers with its realistic depiction of society's underbelly and became one of French literature's most reprinted classics.
Book and edition facts
- Title: Manon Lescaut
- Author credits: Prévost, abbé (1697–1763)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Adventure stories
- Lescaut, Manon, 1689-1721 -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Gutenberg collections
- Category: Classics of Literature
- Category: French Literature
- Category: Novels
- Category: Romance
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