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Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady

โœ Scribed by Samuel Richardson

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
1985
Tongue
English
Weight
1 MB
Category
Fiction

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โœฆ Synopsis

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. Lovelace, however, proves himself to be an untrustworthy rake whose vague promises of marriage are accompanied by unwelcome and increasingly brutal sexual advances. And yet, Clarissa finds his charm alluring, her scrupulous sense of virtue tinged with unconfessed desire. 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. 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.

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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. Lovelace, however, proves himself to be an untrustworthy rake whose vague promises of marri

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Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady
โœ Samuel Richardson ๐Ÿ“‚ Fiction ๐Ÿ“… 2014 ๐Ÿ› Penguin Publishing Group;Penguin Group US ๐ŸŒ en-US โš– 373 KB

*One of the first great British novels, Samuel Richardson's classic tale became a legend to his own age and remains so today.* Defying her parents' desire for her to marry a loathsome man for his wealth, the virtuous Clarissa escapes into the dangerous arms of the charming rogue Lovelace, who