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In Manon Lescaut the young Chevalier des Grieux recounts the tragic story of his passion for Manon and betrayal at her hands. Capricious, mercenary, alert to virtue but alive to pleasure, Manon is one of literature's great femmes fatales. With her des Grieux lives in torment; without her, life seems meaningless. Prevost probably wrote Manon Lescaut in six short weeks in 1731. It remains, in Jean Sgard's words, 'an incomparable account of the workings of the human heart...a defence of love shaped by the hands of a master.'
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