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Manon Lescaut

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abbé Prévost's Manon Lescaut is an adventure fiction and classic romance novel. It deals with man-woman relationships.

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About Manon Lescaut

"Manon Lescaut" by Abbé Prévost is a novel first published in 1731. It tells the tragic love story of a young nobleman and a common woman who choose to live together unmarried, beginning a moral descent into gambling, fraud, and crime. Their passionate relationship leads them from Paris to imprisonment and ultimately to deportation in New Orleans. Narrated retrospectively by the Chevalier des Grieux, this confessional tale shocked eighteenth-century readers with its realistic depiction of society's underbelly and became one of French literature's most reprinted classics.
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  • Adventure stories
  • Man-woman relationships
  • Lescaut, Manon, 1689-1721

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Who wrote Manon Lescaut?

Manon Lescaut was written by abbé Prévost.

What genre is Manon Lescaut?

It is usually shelved as Adventure and Classic Love Stories.

Is Manon Lescaut free to read?

Yes. It is in the public domain in the United States and can be read free on Project Gutenberg in EPUB, Kindle and HTML formats.

Is there a free audiobook of Manon Lescaut?

Yes — LibriVox volunteers recorded it; the recording runs 7 h 07 min.

What books are similar to Manon Lescaut?

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