Manon Lescaut

5 hrs. 44 min.

Romance & Prose

Author Antoine-François Prévost

Narrator Denis Bgavin

Description

“The Story of Cavalier de Grieux and Manon Lescaut” is a romantic-adventure novel by the French writer, monk, and scholar Antoine François Prévost (1697–1763), better known as Abbé Prévost. After it was published in 1733, the work was banned in France as an “immoral book.” In reality, the moral principles of the heroine, Manon Lescaut, are indeed far from perfect, but in Prévost’s narration there is no place for vulgarity. He writes vividly, extremely honestly, sensually. “The language of passions is his natural language,” Voltaire said of him. From the pen of the fugitive monk-Benedictine came one of the best love novels of the Enlightenment: a piercing and sad story where passion, intrigue, and the characters’ deep emotions are intertwined.