Manon Lescaut, A. Francois Prevost DExiles
Manon Lescaut, A. Francois Prevost DExiles
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Manon Lescaut

Author: A. Francois Prevost D'Exiles

Narrator: Walter Covell

Unabridged: 5 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/1983

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

A devastating depiction of obsessive love and a haunting portrait of a captivating but dangerous woman.

When the young Chevalier des Grieux first sets eyes on the exquisitely beautiful and charming Manon Lescaut they fall passionately in love. But his happiness turns to bitter despair when he discovers that Manon is mercenary and immoral, and has taken a rich lover to pay for their life of pleasure. A broken man, he swears to stay away from her, but cannot. Just as the Chevalier is helpless to end their relationship, so Manon is incapable of giving up the source of her income, and the lovers enter a destructive cycle that can only end in tragedy.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nathan

This is a novel that puts me in the not completely unfamiliar position of attempting to balance my extreme distaste for the narrator - and even for his story - against my admiration for the way the story is told. Let's get the aggravations out of the way: objections so strong, they caused me to put......more

Goodreads review by Daisy

Montaigne said the more things change the more things stay the same and this short novel published in 1731 proves that the madness that comes along with first love/infatuation is common to teenagers of whatever era. Chevalier des Grieux is the 18 year old son of a wealthy influential father sees 15 y......more