RICHARDSON SAMUEL
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(P/B) CLARISSA
OR THE HISTORY OF A YOUNG LADY
Εκδότης: PENGUIN Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3452-3379
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 ... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) PAMELA
OR VIRTUE REWARDED
Εκδότης: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3145-1014
One of the most spectacular successes of the burgeoning literary marketplace of eighteeent-century London, Pamela also marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel. In the words of one contemporary, it divided the world 'into two different Parties, Pamelists and Antipamelists', even eclipsing the sensational factional politics of the day. Preached up for its morality, and denounced as pornography in disguise, it vividly describes a young servant's long resistance to the attempts of her predatory master to seduce her. Writt... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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(P/B) CLARISSA
Εκδότης: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 0924-0007 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 capac... Διαβάστε περισσότερα... |
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