Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady (eBook)

Samuel Richardson (Autor)

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2021
888 Seiten
Phoemixx Classics Ebooks (Verlag)
978-3-98677-675-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady Samuel Richardson - Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into fleeing 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 complex series of interweaving letters, "Clarissa" is a richly ambiguous study of a fatally attracted couple and a work of astonishing power and immediacy. A huge success when it first appeared in 1747, and translated into French and German, it remains one of the greatest of all European novels. 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. .

Autor

Samuel Richardson was a major English 18th century writer best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748) and Sir Charles Grandison (1753).Richardson had been an established printer and publisher for most of his life when, at the age of 51, he wrote his first novel and immediately became one of the most popular and admired writers of his time.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.11.2021
• Verlagsort: Vachendorf
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
• Schlagworte: Clarissa Or The History of a Young Lady • Clarissa Or The History of a Young Lady annotated • Clarissa Or The History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson • Clarissa Or The History of a Young Lady english version • Clarissa Or The History of a Young Lady illustrated • Clarissa Or The History of a Young Lady modern english • Clarissa Or The History of a Young Lady Samuel Richardson
• ISBN-10: 3-98677-675-3 / 3986776753
• ISBN-13: 978-3-98677-675-6 / 9783986776756