by Abbé Prévost · Belin - Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782701151441
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«Manon Lescaut» is the classic novel by Abbé Prévost, published by Belin - Gallimard in paperback (256 pages, in French).
The knight Des Grieux meets the young Manon Lescaut and is captivated by her beauty; his passion leads him to flee with her and renounce his comfortable life. The relationship becomes a succession of flights, deceptions, luxury and misery that drags them along. The novel, published in the eighteenth century, portrays the excesses of love and questions morality.
Edition from the Classico Lycée collection, with complete text and pedagogical dossier. The work was originally published in 1731; its original title was Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut.
Aimed at high school students and those who wish to read a great French classic with supporting study material.
Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles, usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost, was a French priest, author, and novelist. He is best remembered for Manon Lescaut (1731), a romance and adventure novel, the most reprinted novel in French literary history.
