A rakish city gentleman, the roguish Lovelace determines to seduce Clarissa, the virtuous, youngest daughter of the Harlowe household, in this eighteenth-century romance, in an abridged edition of the classic novel. Reprint.
A monumentally virtuous young woman is attracted to a dashing young man who is, unfortunately, a wolf in sheep's clothing. Told in letters--Richardson's invariable form--it is, like PAMELA, a morality tale as well as a highly entertaining novel, among the first of the great English "psychological" novels.
- Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres, Fiction + Literature Themes
- Subgenre: Classics, Literary Genres + Types of Novels, General
- Publisher: Signet Classic
- Pages: 528
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: October 4, 2005
- Date Published: October 4, 2005
- Author: Samuel Richardson, Sheila Ortiz Taylor