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Manon Lescaut
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Description for Manon Lescaut
Paperback. "First published as an Oxford World's Classics paperback 2004; Reissued 2008."--Title page verso. Translator(s): Scholar, Angela. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 158.
'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 waste of Louisiana. It is one of the great love stories, and also one of the most enigmatic: how reliable a witness is Des Grieux, Manon's ... Read more
'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 waste of Louisiana. It is one of the great love stories, and also one of the most enigmatic: how reliable a witness is Des Grieux, Manon's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199554928
SKU
V9780199554928
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'an excellent new translation of Manon Lescaut, with a number of useful and welcome features'
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