![]() This edition also includes a chronology, suggestions for further reading, tables of letters, notes, a glossary and an appendix on the music for the "Ode to Wisdom." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. In his introduction, Angus Ross examines characterization, the epistolary style, the role of the family and the position of women in Clarissa. ![]() ![]() A huge success when it first appeared in 1747, and translated into French and German, it remains one of the greatest of all European novels. Told through a complex series of interweaving letters, Clarissa is a richly ambiguous study of a fatally attracted couple and a work of astonishing power and immediacy. And yet, Clarissa finds his charm alluring, her scrupulous sense of virtue tinged with unconfessed desire. Lovelace, however, proves himself to be an untrustworthy rake whose vague promises of marriage are accompanied by unwelcome and increasingly brutal sexual advances. Book excerpt: "Oh thou savage-hearted monster! What work hast thou made in one guilty hour, for a whole age of repentance!" Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into fleeing with the witty and debonair Robert Lovelace and places herself under his protection. ![]() ![]() This book was released on 2004 with total page 1540 pages. Book Synopsis Clarissa by : Samuel RichardsonÄownload or read book Clarissa written by Samuel Richardson and published by Penguin Classics. ![]()
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