Manon Lescaut: Romaani by abbé Prévost
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"Manon Lescaut: Romaani" by abbé Prévost is a novel first published in 1731. It tells the tragic story of Chevalier des Grieux, a young nobleman, and Manon Lescaut, a common woman whose passionate love leads them into moral decline. Their decision to live together unmarried spirals into gambling, fraud, theft, and ultimately deportation to New Orleans. Narrated by des Grieux himself, this scandalous tale shocked eighteenth-century Paris with its realistic depiction of
forbidden love and criminal desperation, becoming one of French literature's most reprinted classics. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Prévost, abbé, 1697-1763 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Hahl, Jalmari, 1869-1929 |
| Title | Manon Lescaut: Romaani |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manon_Lescaut Wikipedia page about this book: sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manon_Lescaut_(roman) |
| Credits | E-text prepared by Timo Ervasti and Tapio Riikonen |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 31.7 (College-level). Difficult to read. |
| Language | Finnish |
| 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. | 59098 |
| Release Date | Mar 19, 2019 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 298 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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