Clarissa (Riverside editions) - Tapa blanda

Richardson, Samuel

 
9780395051641: Clarissa (Riverside editions)
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ISBN 10: 0395051649 ISBN 13: 9780395051641
Editorial: Houghton Mifflin, 1961

Sinopsis

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.

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How Clarissa, in resisting parental pressure to marry a loathsome man for his money, falls prety to Lovelace, is raped and dies, is the bare outline of a story that blossomed in all directions under Richardson's hands. He was, self-confessedly and happily, 'a poor pruner.' Written in letters, the novel contains all the urgency and tension of personal communications set down 'to the moment, ' compelling our confidence but also our distrust. 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. In that fatally attracted pair, Richardson created lovers that haunt the imagination as Romeo and Juleit do, or Tristan and Osolde.

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Editorial
Houghton Mifflin
Año de publicación
1961
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0395051649
ISBN 13 
9780395051641
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
546
Editor
Sherburn G.
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
no disponible

Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780140432152: Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady (Penguin Classics)

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0140432159 ISBN 13:  9780140432152
Editorial: Penguin Classics, 1986
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