Manon Lescaut

1731 · Book · memoir, memoir novel, romantic fiction

Antoine François Prévost

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The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut is a novel by Antoine François Prévost. It tells a tragic love story about a nobleman and a common woman. Their decision to live together without marriage is the start of a moral decline that also leads to gambling, fraud, theft, murder, and Manon's death as a deportee in New Orleans.

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Type: Book
Release date: January 1, 1731
Genres: memoir, memoir novel, romantic fiction
Created by: Antoine François Prévost
Countries: France