Author: abbé Prévost
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
History of Manon Lescaut and of the Chevalier Des Grieux
Author: abbé Prévost
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The History of Manon Lescaut and the Chevalier Des Grieux
Author: abbé Prévost
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
History of Manon Lescaut and of the Chevalier Des Grieux
Author: abbé Prévost
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The young Chevalier des Grieux recounts the tragic story of his passion for Manon and betrayal at her hands. Capricious, mercenary, alert to virtue but alive to pleasure, Manon is one of literature's "femmes fatales."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The young Chevalier des Grieux recounts the tragic story of his passion for Manon and betrayal at her hands. Capricious, mercenary, alert to virtue but alive to pleasure, Manon is one of literature's "femmes fatales."
The Story of the Chevalier Des Grieux and Manon Lescaut
Author: Abbé Prévost
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199554927
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
"First published as an Oxford World's Classics paperback 2004; Reissued 2008."--Title page verso.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199554927
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
"First published as an Oxford World's Classics paperback 2004; Reissued 2008."--Title page verso.
History of Manon Lescaut and of the Chevalier Des Grieux
Author: abbé Prévost
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The History of Manon Lescaut and the Chevalier Des Grieux
Author: abbé Prévost
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Story of Manon Lescaut and of the Chevalier Des Grieux
Author: abbé Prévost
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Greek Girl's Story
Author: Abbé Prévost
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271089350
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
With The Greek Girl’s Story, Alan Singerman presents the first reliable, stand-alone translation and critical edition of Abbé Prévost’s 1740 literary masterpiece Histoire d’une Grecque moderne. The text of this new English translation is based on Singerman’s 1990 French edition, which Jonathan Walsh called “arguably the most valuable critical edition” of Prévost’s novel to date. This new edition also includes a complete critical apparatus comprising a substantial introduction, notes, appendixes, and bibliography, all significantly updated from the 1990 French edition, taking into account recent scholarship on this work and providing some additional reflection on the question of Orientalism. Prévost’s roman à clef is based on a true story involving the French ambassador to the Ottoman Porte from 1699 to 1711. It is narrated from the ambassador’s viewpoint and is a model of subjective, unreliable narration (long before Henry James). It is remarkably modern in its presentation of an enigmatic, ambiguous character, as the truth about the heroine can never be established with certainty. It is the story of the tormented relationship between the diplomat and a beautiful young Greek concubine, Théophé, whom he frees from a pasha’s harem. While her benefactor becomes increasingly infatuated with her and bent on becoming her lover, the Greek girl becomes obsessed with the idea of becoming a virtuous and respected woman. Viewing the ambassador as a father figure, she condemns his quasi-incestuous passion and firmly rejects his repeated seduction attempts. Unable to possess the young woman or tolerate the thought that she might grant to someone else what she has refused him, the narrator subjects her behavior to minute scrutiny in an effort to catch her in an indiscretion. His investigations are fruitless, however, and Théophé, the victim of incessant persecution, simply dies, leaving all the questions about her behavior unanswered.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271089350
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
With The Greek Girl’s Story, Alan Singerman presents the first reliable, stand-alone translation and critical edition of Abbé Prévost’s 1740 literary masterpiece Histoire d’une Grecque moderne. The text of this new English translation is based on Singerman’s 1990 French edition, which Jonathan Walsh called “arguably the most valuable critical edition” of Prévost’s novel to date. This new edition also includes a complete critical apparatus comprising a substantial introduction, notes, appendixes, and bibliography, all significantly updated from the 1990 French edition, taking into account recent scholarship on this work and providing some additional reflection on the question of Orientalism. Prévost’s roman à clef is based on a true story involving the French ambassador to the Ottoman Porte from 1699 to 1711. It is narrated from the ambassador’s viewpoint and is a model of subjective, unreliable narration (long before Henry James). It is remarkably modern in its presentation of an enigmatic, ambiguous character, as the truth about the heroine can never be established with certainty. It is the story of the tormented relationship between the diplomat and a beautiful young Greek concubine, Théophé, whom he frees from a pasha’s harem. While her benefactor becomes increasingly infatuated with her and bent on becoming her lover, the Greek girl becomes obsessed with the idea of becoming a virtuous and respected woman. Viewing the ambassador as a father figure, she condemns his quasi-incestuous passion and firmly rejects his repeated seduction attempts. Unable to possess the young woman or tolerate the thought that she might grant to someone else what she has refused him, the narrator subjects her behavior to minute scrutiny in an effort to catch her in an indiscretion. His investigations are fruitless, however, and Théophé, the victim of incessant persecution, simply dies, leaving all the questions about her behavior unanswered.
Manon Lescaut
Author: Abbe Prevost
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789363050839
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789363050839
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The History of Manon Lescaut and the Chevalier Des Grieux
Author: abbé Prévost
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description