Clarissa may refer to: Clarissa (given name), a female given name Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady, a novel by Samuel Richardson Clarissa (film), a 1941 German film Clarissa (TV …

The novel tells the tragic story of a young woman, Clarissa Harlowe, whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family. The Harlowes are a recently wealthy family whose …

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 …

Clarissa, epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, published in installments in 1747–48. Among the longest English novels ever written (more than a million words), the book has secured a …

1986年2月4日 · 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. In his introduction, Angus Ross …

Clarissa tells the story of a virtuous, beautiful young woman who is brought to tragedy by the wickedness of her world. The eighteen-year-old Clarissa Harlowe is universally loved and …

Miss Clarissa Harlowe, a young Lady of great Delicacy; Mistress of all the Accomplishments, natural and acquired, that adorn the Sex; having the strictest Notions of filial Duty.

Clarissa is a landmark work of psychological realism and a seminal text in the development of the English novel. Read the full book summary, an in-depth character analysis of Clarissa …

A summary of Letters 1–32 in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa: or, the History of a Young Lady. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Clarissa: or, the History of a …

Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady is an epistolary novel that tells the story of the beautiful, virtuous Clarissa and her tragic end. Harrison and Co. first printed the cautionary tale in 1748 …