A review by plagued_by_visions
Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost

5.0

This is quite honestly one of my favorite works of the 18th century, and one of my favorite French novels. Heavily challenged and censored, it is a story that presents the concept of “love” as the twisted, tyrannical, and deleterious thing it really is, especially for the time and context it was written in. Also, the action eventually arrived at Louisiana. What else could you want?!