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The Story of the Chevalier Des Grieux and Manon Lescaut - Couverture souple

Prevost, Abbe

 
9780192840653: The Story of the Chevalier Des Grieux and Manon Lescaut
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0192840657 ISBN 13 : 9780192840653
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2004

Synopsis

'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, and also one of the most enigmatic: how reliable a witness is Des Grieux, Manon's lover, whose tale he narrates? Is Manon a thief and a whore, the image of love itself, or a thoroughly modern woman? Prevost is careful to leave the ambiguities unresolved, and to lay bare the disorders of passion. This new translation includes the vignette and eight illustrations that were approved by Prevost and first published in the edition of 1753.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0192840657
ISBN 13 
9780192840653
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
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