When the young Chevalier des Grieux stops at an inn near Passy, he watches a chained convoy of women being taken to the ships—and sees one face that will never leave him. She is Manon Lescaut, beautiful, willful, and utterly impossible to hold. From their first stolen escape from Amiens, the pair plunge into a Paris of candlelit gaming houses, borrowed fortunes, and dangerous admirers. Des Grieux abandons his family, his seminary vows, and every honest instinct for Manon, while she keeps choosing wealth, pleasure, and freedom over safety. Their devotion spirals through prison, exile, and a desperate flight across the Atlantic to the wilds of Louisiana. This is a faithful modern retelling of Abbé Prévost's scandalous 1731 classic—a story of love as reckless, tender, and fatal as ever. Part of Timeless Classics.
