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Clarissa

(1748)
Or the History of a Young Lady
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Written entirely in letters, this novel conveys the nuances and tensions only present in personal epistolary form. The virtuous but self-deceiving Clarissa and the charming villain Lovelace haunt the imagination as fully as Romeo and Juliet or Tristan and Isolde.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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