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Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady

Samuel Richardson

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Oct 21, 2009 Laura rated it liked it

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Free download available at eBooks@Adelaide.

And the audio version at LibriVox..

From BBC Radio 4 - Classical Serial:
Dramatisation by Hattie Naylor of the 1748 novel by Samuel Richardson.

The beautiful young heiress Clarissa Harlowe is dangerously attracted by the wiles of the notorious libertine Robert Lovelace. Threatened by an imminent marriage arranged with the odious suitor her family have found for her, Lovelace persuades Clarissa to flee with him.

Clarissa Harlowe ...... Zoe Waites
Robert Lovel ...more

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Jun 10, 2025 Karen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I started reading this book as a buddy read, but I found that after a while, I had trouble putting it down, and I wanted to keep reading. This is a long, tragic story about a virtuous young woman (18), finds herself in the clutches of a vile man, and who really bluntly wants nothing more from her than sex. As we know back in the 18th century, having sex outside of marriage would ruin a woman.

So why should we read this 1748 epistolary novel? Most likely Jane Austen and the Victorians read this w ...more

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