Cover of Clarissa Harlowe Volume 9 by Samuel Richardson Audiobook Clarissa Harlowe Volume 9
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Clarissa Harlowe Volume 9

Author
Samuel Richardson
Read by
Leonora Flint
Language
English
Length
9 hours 45 minutes
ISBN
9781802565447
Published
19 September 2018
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Clarissa
  • Epistolary
  • diary
  • letters
  • secret diary
  • passion
  • aristocracy
  • money
  • romance
  • society

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Description

She is gone when the volume opens. The funeral road, Morden, the Harlowes arriving too late, Lovelace talking until talk has nowhere left to go. Volume 9 is aftermath: posthumous pages, a German inn, a meeting that ends a career of talk. Spoken as Belford finishing other people?s business, and a close that stays in the rooms where it happens.

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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