Cover of Clarissa Harlowe Volume 7 by Samuel Richardson Audiobook Clarissa Harlowe Volume 7
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Clarissa Harlowe Volume 7

Author
Samuel Richardson
Read by
Leonora Flint
Language
English
Length
10 hours 9 minutes
ISBN
9781802565423
Published
22 April 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Clarissa
  • Epistolary
  • diary
  • letters
  • secret diary
  • passion
  • aristocracy
  • money
  • romance
  • society

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Description

In a poor room above a shop, Clarissa refuses Lovelace, refuses easy gold, and refuses a neat reconciliation. Volume 7 of the letters follows the Smiths, Belford learning how to help, Arabella’s hardness, and a will that begins in the voice before it reaches paper. Spoken as the long no: illness, dignity, and a future she will not let other people write.

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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