Manon Lescaut (Oxford World's Classics)

ISBN: 9780192840653

出版社: Oxford University Press, USA

出版年: 2004-05-27

页数: 224

定价: USD 10.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

"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. 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? Pr'evost is careful to leave the ambiguities unresolved, and to lay bare the

disorders of passion.

This new translation includes the vignette and eight illustrations that were approved by Pr'evost and first published in the edition of 1753.