Prévost, abbé 1697-1763 creator Hahl, Jalmari 1869-1929 text utu 2019 monographic fi 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Manon Lescaut: Romaani" by abbé Prévost is a novel first published in 1731. It tells the tragic story of Chevalier des Grieux, a young nobleman, and Manon Lescaut, a common woman whose passionate love leads them into moral decline. Their decision to live together unmarried spirals into gambling, fraud, theft, and ultimately deportation to New Orleans. Narrated by des Grieux himself, this scandalous tale shocked eighteenth-century Paris with its realistic depiction of forbidden love and criminal desperation, becoming one of French literature's most reprinted classics. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manon_Lescaut Wikipedia page about this book: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manon_Lescaut_(roman) Release date is 2019-03-19 E-text prepared by Timo Ervasti and Tapio Riikonen Original publication data not identified Adventure stories Man-woman relationships -- Fiction Lescaut, Manon, 1689-1721 -- Fiction PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59098 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59098 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134348.0 59098