Manon Lescaut
Original title: Manon Lescaut (French)
Credits: Abbé Prévost (author)
Summary
The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut is a novel by Antoine François Prévost. It tells a tragic love story about a nobleman (known only as the Chevalier des Grieux) and a common woman (Manon Lescaut). Their decision to live together without marriage is the start of a moral decline that also leads to gambling, fraud, theft, murder, and Manon's death as a deportee in New Orleans.
From Wikipedia (English): Manon Lescaut (CC BY-SA 4.0)
English translation: all 2 published chapters are available.
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