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Clarissa: Or, the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson
Category: Classics | Series: Broadview Editions
This classic novel tells the story, in letters, of the beautiful and virtuous Clarissa Harlowe's pursuit by the brilliant, unscrupulous rake Robert Lovelace. The epistolary structure allows Richardson to create layered and fully realized characters, as well as an intriguing uncertainty about the reliabi ...Show more
Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
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 ...Show more
Pamela by Samuel Richardson
Category: Classics
'O the deceitfulness of the heart of man! This John, whom I took to be the honestest of men ...this very fellow was all the while a vile hypocrite, and a perfidious wretch, and helping to carry on my ruin.' Fifteen-year-old Pamela Andrews, alone in the world, is pursued by her dead mistress' son. Althou ...Show more
Pamela by RICHARDSON SAMUEL
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), a prominent London printer, is considered by many the father of the English novel, and Pamela the first modern novel. Following its hugely successful publication in 1740, it went on to become one of the most influential books in literary history, setting the course for the ...Show more
Pamela by Samuel Richardson
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Samuel Richardson's "Pamela" is a captivating story of one young woman's rebellion against the social order, edited by Peter Sabor with an introduction by Margaret Ann Doody in "Penguin Classics". Fifteen-year-old Pamela Andrews, alone in the world, is pursued by her dead mistress' son. Although she is ...Show more
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