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Manon Lescaut (Paperback)
Antoine Francois Prevost
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R249
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When the young nobleman Des Grieux lays eyes on the beautiful and
charming lower-class Manon Lescaut, he immediately falls in love
with her and runs away with her 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 taken a rich lover. Although causing scandal
when it was first published in 1731 and subsequently banned, Manon
Lescaut proved very popular with eighteenth-century readers and
circulated in pirated editions. The basis for Puccini's famous
opera, Abbe Prevost's ground-breaking tale of passion and tragedy
became hugely influential on the next generation of novelists.
Contains extra material and notes.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the
pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text,
possible missing pages, missing text and other issues beyond our
control.
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This Book Is In French. Due to the very old age and scarcity of
this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the
blurring of the original text.
Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the
pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text,
possible missing pages, missing text and other issues beyond our
control.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the
original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as
marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe
this work is culturally important, we have made it available as
part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting
the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions
that are true to the original work.
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