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Manon Lescaut
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A young man's obsessive love for the beautiful but faithless Manon leads him into ruin, gambling, and exile in colonial Louisiana. Suited to readers interested in French literature, eighteenth-century fiction, and classic tragic romance.
abbé Prévost
Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles, usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost, was a French priest, author, and novelist. He is best remembered for Manon Lescaut (1731), a romance and adventure novel, the most reprinted novel in French literary history.
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