Tells the story, in letters, of the beautiful and virtuoso Clarissa Harlowe's pursuit and abduction by the rake Robert Lovelace. The epistolary structure allows Richardson to create layered and fully realized characters, as well as an intriguing uncertainty about the reliability of the various narrators.

Broadview Press, 2011.
ISBN: 9781551114750. 807 pp.
Edited by John Richetti and Toni Bowers.
Softcover. Very good.