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Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.31'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... -
The Greek Girl's Story by Abbe Prevost
RRP: $34.77Booksplease Price: $33.06With The Greek Girl's Story, Alan Singerman presents the first reliable, stand-alone translation and critical edition of Abbe Prevost's 1740 literary masterpiece Histoire d'une Grecque moderne. The... -
Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost 9781873982778
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873982778Author Abbe PrevostFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint < -
The Abbe Prevost's First-Person Narrators: 1993 by R.A. Francis
Booksplease Price: $126.72Amidst a revival of interest in the novels of the abbe Prevost, this study addresses some of the interpretive issues that are being raised concerning his work, namely what intellectual, moral and... -
Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost 9781107487000
Booksplease Price: $41.43Originally published in 1942, this book contains the French text of Abbe Prevost's 1731 novel Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut, which inspired the 1893 opera by Puccini. The... -
Petit De Bachaumont: His Circle and the 'Mémoires Secrets': 1968 by Robert S. Tate, Jr. 9780729401586
Booksplease Price: $82.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729401586Author Robert S. Tate, Jr.Format HardbackPage Count 212Impri -
Manon Lescaut by Antoine Francois Prevost
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22When the young nobleman Des Grieux lays eyes on the beautiful and charming Manon Lescaut, he immediately falls in love with her, and they elope to Paris, incurring the wrath of his family and... -
The Historical Novel in Europe, 1650-1950 by Richard Maxwell 9781107404465
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $52.86A much older genre than is often thought, the historical novel has played a vital role in the development of the novel overall. It began in seventeenth-century France as a distinctive way of... -
The Huguenots and French Opinion, 1685-1787: The Enlightenment Debate on Toleration by Geoffrey Adams
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $29.01The decision of Louis XIV to revoke the Edict of Nantes and thus liquidate French Calvinism was well received in the intellectual community which was deeply prejudiced against the Huguenots. This... -
Claudine-Alexandrine Guerin de Tencin: Memoirs of the Count of Comminge and the Misfortunes of Love by Jonathan Walsh
Booksplease Price: $34.42These translations from the French bring two of Claudine-Alexandrine de Tencin's novels back to life: The Memoirs of the Count of Comminge (1735), presented as a much-needed new translation, and The... -
Posthumous America: Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century by Benjamin Hoffmann 9780271080086
Booksplease Price: $46.80Benjamin Hoffmann's Posthumous America examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in the works of French writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For writers such as John... -
The Paradoxes of Posterity by Benjamin Hoffmann 9780271087047
RRP: $36.06Booksplease Price: $34.17The impetus for literary creation has often been explained as an attempt to transcend the mortality of the human condition through a work addressed to future generations. Failing to obtain literal... -
The Paradoxes of Posterity by Benjamin Hoffmann 9780271087030
Booksplease Price: $91.11The impetus for literary creation has often been explained as an attempt to transcend the mortality of the human condition through a work addressed to future generations. Failing to obtain literal...