Clarissa Harlowe Or The History of A Young Lady, Volume 3

by Samuel Richardson

On the contrary, it will be found, in the progress of the work, that they very often make such reflections upon each other, and each upon himself and his own actions, as reasonable beings must make, who disbelieve not a future state of rewards and punishments, and who one day propose to reform—one of them actually reforming, and by that means giving an opportunity to censure the freedoms which fall from the gayer pen and lighter heart of the other.

Genres: Classics

306 pages, Paperback

Published February 2, 2004

About the author

Pamela (1740) and Clarissa Harlowe (1748) of English writer Samuel Richardson helped to legitimize the novel as a literary form in English.

An established printer and publisher for most of his life, Richardson wrote his first novel at the age of 51. He is best known for his major 18th-century epistolary novel Sir Charles Grandison (1753).

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Reviews

[Igenlode Wordsmith · Rating 3 out of 5]

Richardson really does have the art of writing at ridiculously long length and yet making it impossible to put down ... (and I really assumed this was the last volume, as it is the end of the plot, but find again, as I now remember doing on my last reading that it is not!)

[Cathie · Rating 5 out of 5]

What is there to say? A truly once in a lifetime listen/read.

[Harold Henkel · Rating 5 out of 5]

The cast and producers of Naxos Audiobook's Clarissa have produced a recording that will probably do more to enlarge the novel's audience than any single printed edition since its publication in 1748. As in the first two volumes, Lucy Scott's reading of the Clarissa is a dramatic triumph that captures the heroine's spiritual insight mingled with self-deception. The supporting cast is outstanding, with readings that frequently reminded me of listening to Shakespeare. The listener who perseveres through the three volumes of this recording will gain an understanding of Samuel Johnson's judgement of Clarissa as "the first book in the world for the knowledge it displays of the human heart."