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Clarissa Harlowe Volume 1

Author
Samuel Richardson
Read by
Victoria Styles
Language
English
Length
8 hours 46 minutes
ISBN
9781802564488
Published
28 March 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Virtue
  • deception
  • family conflict
  • love
  • tragedy
  • 18th century
  • epistolary
  • betrayal
  • societal norms
  • perseverance

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In "Clarissa Harlowe," Samuel Richardson unfolds the intricate narrative of Clarissa, a virtuous young woman facing societal constraints. Imprisoned by familial expectations, Clarissa navigates love, betrayal, and societal scrutiny, revealing a poignant portrayal of 18th-century England's moral complexities and gender dynamics.

Author

Samuel Richardson (1689–1761) was a London printer who taught the English novel how to think from the inside. Pamela and Clarissa are vast books of letters: virtue under siege, feeling as plot, and readers who wait on the next envelope. He made consciousness dramatic — not action on the road, but conscience in a room. Fielding mocked him; Europe copied him. Clarissa remains one of the longest, fiercest moral tragedies in the language.

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