Manon Lescaut

The Abbé Prévost's famous tale of a young man's ruinous passion for the beautiful, faithless Manon.

At a glance Tender, scandalous and heartbreaking, it is one of the great love stories of French… Few love stories have proved as irresistible, or as destructive, as this. The Abbé Prévost's Manon Lescaut follows a respectable young man who throws away… What it's about The Chevalier des Grieux, well-born and destined for a settled life…

The Chevalier des Grieux, well-born and destined for a settled life, meets Manon and is undone in an instant. What follows is the story of their turbulent attachment: flights and reconciliations, poverty and brief…