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Manon Lescaut

Manon Lescaut( )
Author: Prévost, Abbé
Johannot, Tony
Moylan, Denis Creagh
ISBN:978-1-177-33303-0
Publication Date:Aug 2010
Publisher:Creative Media Partners, LLC
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $53.89
Book Description:

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. 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...
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Book Details
Pages:410
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Fiction / Southern
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):18.898 x 24.613 x 2.134 cm
Book Weight:0.732 Kilograms
Author Biography
Prévost, Abbé (Author)
Abbé Prévost, 1697 - 1763 Novelist Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles was born in Hesdin, and he was educated there at a Jesuit school. He was ordained a priest in the Benedictine Order in 1726 and abandoned the order two years later, living several years in England and Holland.

Prévost is best known for "Memoires et Aventures d'un Homme de Qualite" (Memoirs and Adventures of a Man of Quality, 7 vol., 1728-1731). The seventh volume is "Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut" (1731), which is popularly known as Manon Lescaut. The novel chronicles the tragic romance of a young aristocrat and a courtesan and was inspired by the operas Manon (1884), by Jules Massenet, and Manon Lescaut (1893), by Giacomo Puccini. His novels with English themes, as well as his translations of the British novelist Samuel Richardson, encouraged French interest in English literature. Those titles included "Pamela" (1742) and Clarissa" (1751).

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