01619cam a22003253u 4500 468 UtSlPG 20260610133032.0 m cr n 260607r1996||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PQ Prévost, abbé, 1697-1763 Manon Lescaut Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 1996 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manon_Lescaut Release date is 1996-03-01 "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. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Adventure stories Man-woman relationships -- Fiction Lescaut, Manon, 1689-1721 -- Fiction https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/468 42596 42596