num_pages: 208
description: "The sweetness of her glance, or rather my evil star already in its ascendant and drawing me to my ruin, did not allow me to hesitate for a moment."So begins the story of Manon Lescaut, a tale of passion and betrayal, of delinquency and misalliance, which moves from early eighteenth-century Paris--with its theatres, assemblies, and gaming-houses-via prison and deportation to a tragic denouement in the treeless wastes of Louisiana. It is one ofthe great love stories, and also one of the most how reliable a witness is Des Grieux, Manon's lover, whose tale he narrates? Is Manon a thief and a whore, the image of love itself, or a thoroughly modern woman? Prévost is careful to leave the ambiguities unresolved, and to lay bare thedisorders of passion.This new translation includes the vignette and eight illustrations that were approved by Prévost and first published in the edition of 1753.
language: English
title: Manon Lescaut
titlecomplete: Manon Lescaut (Oxford World's Classics)
characters: Chevalier des Grieux, Manon Lescaut
genres: Literature, Classics, School, Novels, France, 18th Century, Historical Fiction, French Literature, Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 12284
places: Paris
publisher: Oxford University Press