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Manon Lescaut

by abbé Prévost

Romance · Adventure · Novel

Open Library OL1132652W

Manon Lescaut tells a tragic love story about a nobleman (known only as the Chevalier des Grieux) and a common woman (Manon Lescaut). 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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abbé Prévost (1697–1763) is represented here by 1 public-domain title, including Manon Lescaut. This page is a shelf list: the books are read on Open Library, not stored here. More of this shelf for abbé Prévost.

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