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Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady is an epistolary novel by English writer Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. It tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family and is regarded as one of the longest novels in the English language (based on estimated word count). It is generally regarded as Richardson's masterpiece. 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. Its rich ambiguities - our sense of Clarissa's scrupulous virtue tinged with intimations of her capacity for self-deception in matters of sex; the wicked and amusing faces of Lovelace, who must be easily the most charming villain in English literature - give the story extraordinary psychological momentum. This book will be a wonderful gift for both women and men!

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Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady is an epistolary novel by English writer Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. It tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family and is regarded as one of the longest novels in the English language (based on estimated word count). It is generally regarded as Richardson's masterpiece. 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. Its rich ambiguities - our sense of Clarissa's scrupulous virtue tinged with intimations of her capacity for self-deception in matters of sex; the wicked and amusing faces of Lovelace, who must be easily the most charming villain in English literature - give the story extraordinary psychological momentum. This book will be a wonderful gift for both women and men!

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1774 Excerpt: ... and in Mifs Howe's vicinage, have hitherto failed of fuccefs. But my Lord continues fo weak and low-fpirited, that there is no Jetting from him. I would not difoblige a man whom think in danger ftill: For would his Gout, now it has got him down, but give him, like a fair boxer, the rifing-blow, all would be over with him. And here Pox of his fondnefs for me! it happens at a very bad time he makes me fit hours together entertaining him with my rogueries (a pretty amufement for a fick man!): And yet, whenever he has the Gout, he prays night and morning with his Chaplain. But what muft bis notions of Religion be, who, after he has nofed and mumbled over his Refponfes, can give a figh or groan of fatisfacYion, as if he thought he had made up with Heaven; and return with a new appetite to my Stories?--Encouraging them, by fhaking his fides with laughing at them, and calling me a fad fellow in fuch an accent, as fhews he takes no fmall delight in his Kinfman. The old Peer has been a finner in his day,andfuffer for it now: A fneaking finner, fitting, rather than rvJhing, into vices, for fear of his reputation: Or, rather, for fear of detection, and pofitive proof; for thefe fort of fellows, Jack, have no real regard for reputation.--Paying for what he never had, and never daring to rife to the joy of an enterprize atfirft hand, K 3.,...---which which could bring him within view of a tilting, or 61 tfee honour of being confidered as the principal man in a Court of Juftice., To fee fuch an old Trojan as this, jufr. dropping into the grave, which I hoped ere this would have been dur, and filled up with him; crying out with pain, and grunting with v/eaknefs; yet in the fame moment crack his leathern face into an horrible laugh, and call a young, finner charming vaile...

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Excerpt from Clarissa Harlowe, Vol. 6 of 9: Or the History of a Young LadyWell, then, if this sweet creature must fall, as it is called, for the benefit of all the pretty fools of the sex, she must and there's an end of the matter. And what would there have been in it of uncommon or rare, had I not been so long about it - Aud so I dismiss all further argumentation and debate upon the question and I impose upon thee, when thou writest to me, an eternal silence on this head.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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