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Books by Abbé Prévost
Manon Lescaut (1731): mentions 1 book, mentioned in 9 books
Quotes from Abbé Prévost's books, and about them
Manon Lescaut on The Aeneid: “The light I had already derived from love, enabled me to comprehend many passages in Horace and Virgil which had before appeared obscure. I wrote an amatory commentary upon the fourth book of the AEneid.”
The Picture of Dorian Gray on Manon Lescaut: “So the lad was looking rather sulky, as with listless fingers he turned over the pages of an elaborately illustrated edition of Manon Lescaut that he had found in one of the book-cases.”
Les Misérables on Manon Lescaut: “Aspasia was a creature in whom two extremes of womanhood met; she was the goddess prostitute; Socrates plus Manon Lescaut.”
Camille on Manon Lescaut: “All at once I heard: "A volume, beautifully bound, gilt-edged, entitled Manon Lescaut.”
Cousin Bette on Manon Lescaut: “as Figaro, Lovelace, and Manon Lescaut have immortalized Beaumarchais, Richardson, and the Abbe Prevost.”
Imaginary Portraits on Manon Lescaut: “they have begun to talk of these things in Paris, to amuse themselves with the spectacle of them, set forth here, in the story of poor Manon Lescaut”
The Uses of Literature on Manon Lescaut: Discussed alongside La Nouvelle Héloïse as eighteenth-century novels criticized in a passage Calvino quotes