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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Antoine Francois Prevost

  

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Antoine Francois Prevost : L'Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut

"At the Paris Exhibition of 1878 I saw, and never forgot, a picture of the death of Manon Lescaut, and asked my Father many questions. I read that amazing 'one book' of the Abbe Prevost, in alternate slabs with Scarron's Roman Comique, when I was about 18."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Rudyard Kipling      Print: Book
  

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