Manon Lescaut

Complete and unabridged, with 16 full-page plates by Willem van de Velde the Younger, Adrien Manglard and Jean-Baptiste Lallemand. A seventeen-year-old chevalier meets a girl being sent to a convent against her will, and throws over his family, his studies and eventually his honor to keep her — repeatedly, each time worse. Prévost was a Benedictine who twice fled his order; the book was burned in ...