Print List Price:	$4.99
Kindle Price:	$0.00 Save $4.99 (100%)

Promotions apply when you purchase

Deliver to your Kindle or other device

Added to

Unable to add item to List. Please try again.

Enter a promotion code or Gift Card

Share <Embed>

Kindle App Ad

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by [Richardson, Samuel]

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 Kindle Edition

by Samuel Richardson (Author)

15 customer reviews

See all 20 formats and editions Hide other formats and editions

Price

New from

Used from

Kindle

"Please retry"

$0.00

—

—

Hardcover

"Please retry"

$24.99

"Please retry"

$4.99

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Length: 353 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Page Flip: Enabled

Customers who bought this item also bought

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1

This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.

Pierre Choderlos de…

14

Kindle Edition
$0.99
Samuel Richardson

1

Kindle Edition
$0.99
Virginia Woolf

8

Kindle Edition
$1.99
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1,252

Kindle Edition
$0.60
Marcel Proust

101

Kindle Edition
$0.99
Nicolai Gogol

8

Kindle Edition
$1.99

Try Kindle Countdown Deals
Explore limited-time discounted eBooks. Learn more.

Product details

File Size: 408 KB
Print Length: 353 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1539532623
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
Publication Date: May 12, 2012
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B0082V0MP2
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

X-Ray:

Not Enabled

Word Wise: Enabled
Lending: Enabled
Screen Reader: Supported

Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,874 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store)
- #112 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > British > Drama & Plays
- #214 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > World Literature
- #266 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Drama & Plays

Would you like to tell us about a lower price?

Be the first video

Your name here

15 customer reviews

3.7 out of 5 stars

1 star (0%)

Review this product

Write a customer review

Showing 1-8 of 15 reviews

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Frank R. Claudy

Clarissa Harlowe by Samuel Richardson

March 16, 2014

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

After coming across a reference to this series in a history book, I was motivated to download the first volume. I was curious to see what attracted a mass of readers to this story, told entirely in correspondence, at first letters in the open, later in secret. Well, I am hooked: the language is quaint and the scandalous intentions masked by 18th Century propriety of phrase, but all the same, it is a rousing tale of a good girl (Clarissa) done wrong by her grasping father and older brother, aided and abetted by crusty bachelor uncles and her overly passive mother. Thankfully, Clarissa has her good friend, Nancy Howe, to carry on her secret correspondence. Nancy is as saucy as Clarissa is meek, making a great contrast.
e
Time and events move at an agonizingly slow pace, but there are quotable phrases throughout (e.g. an angry uncle's fuming about women "Such gnat strainers and camel-swallowers all, as Holy Writ has it." or Miss Howe, "Too ready forgiveness does but encourage offenses.") I am well into the second volume and look forward to plowing slowly through the whole series. You will doubtless wish to consult your reader's dictionary for the many literary and obsolete terms: adjure, purlieus and especially, prepossession. Enjoy!

6 people found this helpful7 people found this helpful

Amazon Customer

17th Century England

June 21, 2017

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

Had to read this for a college class. Keep in mind this was written in 17th Century England where there was an order of hierarchy, women were EXPECTED to act a certain way, men were hypocritical in how they should act, and details were matter of fact rather than light, airy, and creative as they do appear in the 18th Century.

One person found this helpful

Katie Prestwich

July 29, 2013

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

This book is about a young girl whose family is trying to force her to marry a man she despises. I like the characters and the writing style, but it kind of drags on. There are like nine volumes, and if nothing else happens I definitely will not be able to take eight more books of the family arguing back and forth and coercing this poor girl.

One person found this helpful

January 30, 2017

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

Keeping the subject in focus while traversing thosellooooonnnge sentences is just miserable.

One person found this helpful2 people found this helpful

July 7, 2013

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

Clarissa's good and Lovelace is evil, but what complexities of human nature this novel delves into. I read this version in conjunction with a hardbound copy. There were a few typographical errors here and there, but the ebook is very faithful to the printed page, and the print on the screen was "friendlier" than my hardbound. I've only read a little of the Eighteenth Century, but for its depth and making a reader what to know what will happen next, Clarissa is a rewarding experience, far more rewarding than many other, later novels written in English.

9 people found this helpful10 people found this helpful

August 18, 2013

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

I love "Fanny Hill," so I though I would read something by Richardson, whose novel "Pamela" it is said to be a parody of. Pamela wasn't available on Amazon, but Clarissa had been converted to a free e-book by Project Gutenberg. I downloaded the first book of the novel, and I am glad I didn't purchase the whole thing. I enjoyed the style of the work, especially the letters written by Lovelace. However, by today's standards it is extremely slow moving. Even Richardson says in the introduction that his main objective is to teach a moral lesson rather than to entertain. Not recommended for light reading.

3 people found this helpful4 people found this helpful

St Louis theology

August 16, 2014

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

An excellent read that gives good insight into a world long gone.

One person found this helpful2 people found this helpful

A bid longer than...

January 24, 2015

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

The writing is very well done, the drama very thoughtful, and impressive way put together with letters. However, the main body of the drama and arguments draw much over and over and sometimes overwhelming.

One person found this helpful

Customers who viewed this item also viewed

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1

This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.

Samuel Richardson

1

Kindle Edition
$0.99
Samuel Richardson

3

Kindle Edition
$0.00
Samuel Richardson

39

Kindle Edition
$0.00
Samuel Richardson

5

Kindle Edition
$0.00
Samuel Richardson

4

Kindle Edition
$0.00
Samuel Richardson

2

Kindle Edition
$0.00

Feedback

If you need help or have a question for Customer Service, contact us.

Would you like to report poor quality or formatting in this book? Click here

Would you like to report this content as inappropriate? Click here

Do you believe that this item violates a copyright? Click here

English United States

Conditions of Use
Privacy Notice
Interest-Based Ads
© 1996-2018, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates