A young nobleman abandons everything for the beautiful, faithless Manon, following her from Paris to ruin and exile.
Books mentioned in Manon Lescaut (1)
The Aeneid by Virgil: “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.”
Books that mention Manon Lescaut (9)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde: “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.”
The Aspirations of Jean Servien by Anatole France: “such figures as Ophelia and Cassandra, Gretchen, Delia, Phædra, Manon Lescaut, and Virginia”
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes: “a tenacious local legend maintained that Abbé Prévost wrote Manon Lescaut there.”
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo: “Aspasia was a creature in whom two extremes of womanhood met; she was the goddess prostitute; Socrates plus Manon Lescaut.”
Camille by Alexandre Dumas fils: “All at once I heard: "A volume, beautifully bound, gilt-edged, entitled Manon Lescaut.”
Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac: “as Figaro, Lovelace, and Manon Lescaut have immortalized Beaumarchais, Richardson, and the Abbe Prevost.”
Imaginary Portraits by Walter Pater: “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 by Italo Calvino: Discussed alongside La Nouvelle Héloïse as eighteenth-century novels criticized in a passage Calvino quotes