Manon Lescaut A Novel
Manon -- that name alone is enough to evoke one of the greatest love stories in European Literature, the passion that sweeps a young man of promise off his feet and makes him defy every social convention of his class and flout the laws of God and man for the sake of a girl whose fascination enslaves him. This is no tale of a gradually unfolding love; instead, the novel presents one of the abiding myths of our culture, the sudden enchantment with which woman breaks down man's defences of reason and sense and triumphs over conscience.