Clarissa - Couverture souple

Richardson, Samuel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0395051649 ISBN 13 : 9780395051641

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin, 1961

Synopsis

Lovelace's love for Clarissa and the young woman's attitudes toward marriage are revealed through the series of letters comprising this eighteenth-century classic.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This is Volume 6 of Samuel Richardson’s classic novel; Clarissa. 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, it remains one of the greatest of all novels.

Biographie de l'auteur

Samuel Richardson (1689 - 1761) was born in Derbyshire, the son of a joiner. He received little formal education and in 1706 was apprenticed to a printer in London. Thirteen years later he set himself up as a stationer and printer and became of the leading figures in the trade. He printed political material, newspapers and literature. He began writing Pamela as a result of a suggestion from friends that he should compile a book of model letters for use by unskilled writers. Pamela was a great success and went on to write Clarissa, one of the masterpieces of European literature.Angus Ross is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Sussex. He writes on eighteenth-century and other literature and has edited Swift as well as a number of anthologies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin
• Date d'édition: 1961
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0395051649
• ISBN 13: 9780395051641
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 546
• Éditeur: Sherburn G.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible