Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete

Download or read book Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete written by Samuel Richardson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 1878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family, and is one of the longest novels in the English language. Clarissa Harlowe is a beautiful and virtuous young lady whose family has become wealthy only recently and now desires to become part of the aristocracy. Their original plan was to concentrate the wealth and lands of the Harlowes into the possession of Clarissa's brother James Harlowe, whose wealth and political power will lead to his being granted a title.