A01=Antoine Francois Prevost
Author_Antoine Francois Prevost
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classic
COP=United Kingdom
Des Grieux
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French literature
French society
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IMPN=Alma Classics
ISBN13=9781847498144
Language_English
love
Manon Lescaut
money
opera
PA=Available
paris
passion
PD=20190829
picaresque
POP=Richmond
Prevost
Price_€10 to €20
prostitution
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PUB=Alma Books Ltd
Puccini
romance
Subject=Classic Fiction
wealth
WMM=128
Product details
- ISBN 9781847498144
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 175g
- Dimensions: 128 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 30 Oct 2019
- Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: Richmond, GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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When 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.
Antoine 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.
