This is not really a review, but these are some of the observations I made while reading Clarissa (the longest book I’ve ever read!). [spoiler] It is ironic how Clarissa continues to encourage Miss Howe to obey her mother by marrying Mr. Hickman, and as quickly as possible, throughout the novel,...
bookshelves: fraudio, published-1748, epistolatory-diary-blog, britain-england, classic, spring-2010, play-dramatisation, georgian1714-1830 Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Carey Combe Recommended for: Laura, Wanda, Hayes, Sandybanks et al Read from March 15 to April 05, 2010 ** spoiler alert ** Has...
Jonathan Swift is a brilliant satirist and if I was a contemporary of Swift's or aware of the issues he was mocking, then I might have enjoyed this book. Instead, this short book is filled with long digressions mocking organized religion or possibly government. I have to admit that about half way ...
For people who haven't seen the haiku version:To Miss Howe: send help!I've been ravished in Book Sixwith three more to go
Has anyone else noticed how often a trivia question in full view amounts to a plot spoiler? I was left in no doubt as to Clarissa's fate before I even started listening to this. Pooh! Think about the impact please, question setters.Dramatisation by Hattie Naylor of the 1748 novel by Samuel Richardso...
When I was a little girl, I dreamed of being a nun or a convict.In my romanticized view, both situations provided a room and isolation. What more could anyone want? Space and isolation: the perfect ingredients to read endlessly and without interruption. In reality, nothing could be further from the ...
Going from [book:Pamela] to [book:Clarissa] feels like leaping 300 years in the history of the novel. Yes, Clarissa is (way, way, WAY) too long, but it does need some of that length: the psychological acuity is incredible.
[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...
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