| #3765215 in Books | 2004-05-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.00 x.80 x7.60l, | File type: PDF | 208 pages||6 of 15 people found the following review helpful.| extremely--I-don't-know-what|By Goggle-Eyed Slewfoot|This novel was originally presented as an autobiographical novel, but certain elements do not seem true to life.
--The hero falls in love at first sight, and the two continue to remember each other until the bitter end.
--The heroine arouses the passion of 6 men through no effort on her own part. <||`'an excellent new translation of Manon Lescaut, with a number of useful and welcome features'' MLR|About the Author||Angela Scholar edited the Oxford World's Classics edition of Confessions by Ro
"The sweetness of her glance, or rather my evil star already in its ascendant and drawing me to my ruin, did not allow me to hesitate for a moment." So begins the story of Manon Lescaut, a tale of passion and betrayal, of delinquency and misalliance, which moves from early eighteenth-century Paris--with its theatres, assemblies, and gaming-houses-via prison and deportation to a tragic denouement in the treeless wastes of Louisiana. It is one of the great love stories...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Manon Lescaut (Oxford World's Classics) | Abbé Prévost. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
