Prévost's scandalous tale of the Chevalier des Grieux, who ruins himself for the irresistible, faithless Manon, from Paris gaming rooms to exile in Louisiana. Banned on publication, it became the archetype of the fatal-passion romance and inspired operas by Massenet and Puccini.
Sources for Abbé Prévost — Manon Lescaut
Abbé Prévost — Manon Lescaut in First Romance Novels
Held in the First Romance Novels chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Achilles Tatius — Leucippe and Clitophon (Loeb / Smith trans.) (180)
- Heliodorus — The Aethiopica (Underdowne / Wright trans.) (250)
- Longus — Daphnis and Chloe: A Pastoral Romance (200)
- Xenophon of Ephesus — Ephesian History: The Love-Adventures of Abrocomas and Anthia (Rooke trans., 1727) (150)
- Samuel Richardson — Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740)
- Cao Xueqin — Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. I (Joly trans.) (1791)
- Jane Austen — Sense and Sensibility (1811)
- Jane Austen — Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Maria Edgeworth — Tales and Novels (collected) (1832)
- Charlotte Brontë — Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (1847)
- Georgette Heyer — The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIIIth Century (1921)
- Benjamin Disraeli — Henrietta Temple: A Love Story (1837)
- Prosper Mérimée — Carmen (1845)