Clarissa - Vol I (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781443733373)

Pressured by her family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into running away with the witty and debonair Robert Lovelace and places herself under his protection. Lovelace, however, proves himself to be an untrustworthy rake whose vague promises of marriage are accompanied by unwelcome and increasingly brutal sexual advances. And yet, Clarissa finds his charm alluring, her scrupulous sense of virtue tinged with unconfessed desire. Told through a series of interweaving letters, "Clarissa" is a richly ambiguous study of a fatally attracted couple and a work of astonishing power and immediacy. 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.

Author: Samuel Richardson
ISBN-10: 1443733377
ISBN-13: 9781443733373
Publisher: Pomona Press
Language: English
Published: 11/04/2008
Pages: 540
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.83lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.38d