Manon Lescaut by abbé Prévost
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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. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Prévost, abbé, 1697-1763 |
|---|---|
| Title | Manon Lescaut |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manon_Lescaut |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 65.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Adventure stories |
| Subject | Man-woman relationships -- Fiction |
| Subject | Lescaut, Manon, 1689-1721 -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 468 |
| Release Date | Mar 1, 1996 |
| Last Update | Jan 1, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 21573 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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