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      Clarissa: Or, the History of a Young Lady

      by Samuel Richardson
      Published
      Jan 1747
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      528
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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.

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