a streetcar named desire
A01=Abbe Prevost
andrea camilleri
animal farm
anna karenina
Author_Abbe Prevost
brave new world
catch 22
catcher in the rye
Category=FBC
david copperfield
don quixote
eq_bestseller
eq_classics
eq_fiction
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
ernest hemingway
graham greene
heart of darkness
house of leaves
how not to die
isabel allende
joanna trollope
little women
madame bovary
malcolm x
milk and honey
moby dick
mrs dalloway
never let me go
novels
oscar wilde
paradise lost
self defence
slaughterhouse 5
the color purple
the girl on the train
the miniaturist
the secret garden
the shining
to kill a mockingbird
wuthering heights
Product details
- ISBN 9780140445596
- Weight: 157g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 26 Sep 1991
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
When the young Chevalier des Grieux first sets eyes on the exquisitely beautiful and charming Manon Lescaut they fall passionately in love. But his happiness turns to bitter despair when he discovers that Manon is mercenary and immoral, and has taken a rich lover to pay for their life of pleasure. A broken man, he swears to stay away from her, but cannot. Just as the Chevalier is helpless to end their relationship, so Manon is incapable of giving up the source of her income, and the lovers enter a destructive cycle that can only end in tragedy. Manon Lescaut (1731) is a devastating depiction of obsessive love and a haunting portrait of a captivating but dangerous woman.
Antoine-Francois Prevost was born in 1697. Educated by the Jesuits, he entered the army, later returning to the Jesuits, before becoming a Benedictine monk with the congregation of Saint-Maur. However, his taste for the wordly life led him to flee the cloister in 1728 after which he spent the next six years in exile in Holland. He began writing in 1728 and Mamon Lescaut casued a sensation on its publication in 1731. He died in 1763.
Leonard Tancock was a Fellow of University College, London until his death in 1986. He translated many works from French for the Penguin Classics.
Jean Sgard is a Professor of French Literature at the Stendhal University in Grenoble.
