by Antoine-Francois Prévost · tapa dura · ISBN 9788474616156
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«Manon Lescaut» is the novel by Antoine-François Prévost, published by Promoción y Ediciones in hardcover and in French.
The young nobleman Chevalier des Grieux abandons his social position upon meeting Manon Lescaut, destined for the convent. Their passionate love drags them into deceit, gambling and misery, trapped between duty and desire. Set in eighteenth-century France, the novel realistically portrays the moral decay of its era.
Collection «Grandes genios de la literatura universal», no. 124. 1985 edition; the work originally appeared in 1731 as «Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut».
A classic of eighteenth-century French literature and regular reading in schools, for those seeking love stories with a social backdrop.
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.
