![]() Told through a complex series of interweaving letters, Clarissa is a richly ambiguous study of a fatally attracted couple and a work of astonishing power and immediacy. And yet, Clarissa finds his charm alluring, her scrupulous sense of virtue tinged with unconfessed desire. ![]() Lovelace, however, proves himself to be an untrustworthy rake whose vague promises of marriage are accompanied by unwelcome and increasingly brutal sexual advances. 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. "Oh thou savage-hearted monster! What work hast thou made in one guilty hour, for a whole age of repentance!" ![]() Clarissa is one of the grand masterpieces of European literature ![]()
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