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    <body><![CDATA[Written entirely in the epistolary style (comprised of nothing but letters between the protagonists, a first for a modern novel, and as the insipiration for de Laclos' &quot;Les Liasons Dangereuses&quot; over 30 years later), Clarissa Harlowe, the much beloved and golden daughter of the wealthy Harl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/911800">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am thrilled at the prospect of completing this novel. I've read a great deal of fiction and this - the longest novel ever written, I believe, - is better than much of it. It is so subtle, so complete in its awareness of gender and human nature; the syntax and style seems to anticipate what I love ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41804235">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[03.11.08 - So far, the plight of Clarissa is rather depressing. Her family is trying to force her to marry a man she can't stand; since she has refused this arrangement, she's been ordered to seclusion in her room. Why won't they believe that she wants neither Mr Solmes (her intended) nor Mr Lovelac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78887040">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book. I don't care what anyone says. I love <em>Pamela</em>, too, and was thoroughly angry at <em>Shamela</em>. (I read &amp; own the condensed version of Clarissa, for time's sake, although I read the first four books of the long version - does that matter?) <br/><br/><em>Clarissa</em> is a far cry from <em>Pamela</em>'s mo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76885316">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[[These notes were made in 1981:]. Read in an 8-volume, 1785 edition. Having given so much of my life to this not-so-little masterpiece, I feel a certain sense of accomplishment merely in having reached the last page of the last volume. But, surprisingly enough (for I was not terribly enamoured of Pa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73350738">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to offer a dissenting opinion. I thought it was a delight, a great romp, an imaginative work of wit. It makes me want to carry hartshorn around with me. So he's not Tolstoy. Someone called Richardson &quot;literary cod liver oil.&quot; I had to smile. But I remember really enjoying this as a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12062297">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Though a complex figure, Clarissa's resolve, her inflexible code of conduct, signal her downfall. Clarissa cannot acquiesce to a corrupt society, and her story depicts this impasse. The details of Clariss'a setting are scant; Richardson creates here a mindscape, rather than a landscape. It is a psyc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77260794">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first competely epistolary novel I've ever read and I loved it. The letters kept me in suspense with what would happen next. The friendship between Anna and Clarissa is admirable and inspiring and the character of Lovelace as intriguing and complex as characters get. I would have given t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74847589">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This immense tome is actually a pretty good read--I think, until the enforced ending.  It annoyed me as a college student, and annoys me now, that the wronged woman still has to die, but other than that (and, well, Clarissa's somewhat lugubrious goodness, spawning decades of passive, saintly heroine...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55255082">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Synopsis<br/>Epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, published in 1747-48. Richardson first presents the heroine, Clarissa Harlowe, when she is discovering the barely masked motives of her family, who want to force her into a loveless marriage to improve their fortunes. When Lovelace, a romantic who...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27496362">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Epistolary novels require a certain amount of willing suspension of disbelief, and this one is no exception. Clarissa's story is a tragic one that comes across at times like a morality play, and it definitely has some strong opinions about the characters within.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting enough story, if a bit long.  Although a must-read for any English major for its standing as the &quot;first true epistolary novel,&quot; I do feel sorry for anyone who has <em>Clarrissa<em> (unabridged) assigned to them for a class.</em></em>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have a love/hate relationship with this book. It is Richardson's Pamela + Rape (heavily suggested)=death and forgiveness. The only other person who might enjoy this, if only to laugh about later, is Lisa B.<br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Most boring book ever!!!!  EVER!!!!  I suggest your lover hide 50.00 bills every so often, because the prospect of finding money (or a love letter) is the only way you will ever get through this book....]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Surprisingly, for the longest novel - it made some important points about woman's choices and the ridiculousness of the rules within society.  Not quick at getting to the point though!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Charming, clever, and exceedingly conceited, Robert Lovelace is a man without a conscience. He is the perfect predator of naive or shallow women, and his most desired target is Clarissa Harlowe. Unlike his other victims, however, she did not succumb to his elaborate schemes or to his false declarati...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2868149">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An 18th Century horror story, told in the most formal and elegant language. If you want to write in the 18thC--I mean for REAL--you ought to give this a go. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Took more than a year. Long stretches of painful reading. But in the end an incredible thing. Changed my understanding of the history of the novel.]]></body>
    
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