Clarissa - Volume 7
by Samuel Richardson
This is volume 7 of Samuel Richardson's classic novel, Klaris. Young Clarissa Harlow, pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a rich man she despises, tricks her into escaping and protecting herself with the witty and deboner Robert Lovelace. However, Lovelace manifests herself as an unreliable rake, whose vague marriage promises are accompanied by unwanted and increasingly violent sexual harassment. Yet Clarissa finds her charm appealing, her meticulous sense of virtue overshadowed by unrepentant desire. Told through a complex series of intertwined letters, Clarissa is an invaluable work of a fatally involved couple and an artifact of incredible strength and immediacy. A great success when it first appeared in 1747, it remains one of the greatest of all novels.
