Manon Lescaut (Oxford World's Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (750 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0192840657 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
`'an excellent new translation of Manon Lescaut, with a number of useful and welcome features'' MLR
Angela Scholar edited the Oxford World's Classics edition of Confessions by Rousseau.
"The sweetness of her glance, or rather my evil star already in its ascendant and drawing me to my ruin, did not allow me to hesitate for a moment." So begins the story of Manon Lescaut, a tale of passion and betrayal, of delinquency and misalliance, which moves from early eighteenth-century Paris--with its theatres, assemblies, and gaming-houses-via prison and deportation to a tragic denouement in the treeless wastes of Louisiana. This new translation includes the vignette and eight illustrations that were approved by Prévost and first published in the edition of 1753.. It is one of the great love stories, and also one of the most enigmatic: how reliable a witness is Des Grieux, Manon's lover, whose tale he narrates? Is Manon a thief and a whore, the image of love itself, or a thoroughly modern woman? Prévost is careful to leave the ambiguities unresolved, and to lay bare the disorders of passion