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Item Details
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CLARISSA
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| By: |
Samuel Richardson |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£20.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0395051649 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780395051641 |
| Publisher: |
CENGAGE LEARNING, INC |
| Pub. date: |
1 February, 1961 |
| Edition: |
Riverside Abridged ed |
| Series: |
Riverside editions |
| Pages: |
546 |
| Description: |
Lovelace''s love for Clarissa and the young woman''s attitudes toward marriage are revealed through the series of letters comprising this eighteenth-century classic. |
| Synopsis: |
How Clarissa, in resisting parental pressure to marry a loathsome man for his money, falls prety to Lovelace, is raped and dies, is the bare outline of a story that blossomed in all directions under Richardson's hands. He was, self-confessedly and happily, 'a poor pruner.' Written in letters, the novel contains all the urgency and tension of personal communications set down 'to the moment, ' compelling our confidence but also our distrust. 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. In that fatally attracted pair, Richardson created lovers that haunt the imagination as Romeo and Juleit do, or Tristan and Osolde. |
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Returnable |
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