Dearest Creature


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A surreal new collection from an acclaimed poet Hallucinogenic plants chant in chorus. A thoughtful dog grants an interview. A caterpillar offers life advice. Amy Gerstler’s newest collection of poetry, Dearest Creature, marries fact and fiction in a menagerie of dramatic monologues, twisted love poems, and epistolary pleadings. Drawing on sources as disparate as Lewis Carroll and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, as well as abnormal psychology, etiquette, and archaeology texts, these darkly imaginative poems probe what it means to be a sentient, temporary, flesh-and-blood beast, to be hopelessly, vividly creaturely.




Clarissa - Vol I


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Pressured by her family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into running away with the witty and debonair Robert Lovelace and places herself under his protection. Lovelace, however, proves himself to be an untrustworthy rake whose vague promises of marriage are accompanied by unwelcome and increasingly brutal sexual advances. And yet, Clarissa finds his charm alluring, her scrupulous sense of virtue tinged with unconfessed desire. Told through a series of interweaving letters, "Clarissa" is a richly ambiguous study of a fatally attracted couple and a work of astonishing power and immediacy. Its rich ambiguities - our sense of Clarissa's scrupulous virtue tinged with intimations of her capacity for self-deception in matters of sex; the wicked and amusing faces of Lovelace, who must be easily the most charming villain in English literature - give the story extraordinary psychological momentum.




Clarissa


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Novelist's Library


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Clarissa - An Abridged Edition


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This classic novel tells the story, in letters, of the beautiful and virtuous Clarissa Harlowe’s pursuit by the brilliant, unscrupulous 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.” Clarissa emerges as a heroine at once rational and passionate, self-sacrificing and defiant, and her story has gripped readers since the novel’s first publication in 1747–48. This new abridgment is designed to retain the novel’s rich characterizations and relationships, and reproduces individual letters in their entirety whenever possible. This Broadview Edition provides a uniquely accessible entry point for readers, while retaining much of the powerful reading experience of the complete novel.







Clarissa Harlowe


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Reproduction of the original: Clarissa Harlowe by Samuel Richardson







Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Richardson (Illustrated)


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Regarded by some as the leading novelist of the Eighteenth Century, Samuel Richardson is best known for his epistolary novels, which changed the course of English literature. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of Samuel Richardson, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Richardson’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * ALL 4 novels, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * The complete translation of AESOP’S FABLES, first time in digital print * Special numerical and alphabetical contents tables for the fables * Includes Richardson’s non-fiction, with rare essays - spend hours exploring the author’s wide range of texts * Special criticism section, with essays evaluating Richardson’s contribution to literature * Features two biographies, including Thomson’s seminal study - discover Richardson’s literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels PAMELA; OR, VIRTUE REWARDED PAMELA IN HER EXALTED CONDITION CLARISSA; OR THE HISTORY OF A YOUNG LADY THE HISTORY OF SIR CHARLES GRANDISON The Fables AESOP’S FABLES The Non-Fiction THE INFIDEL CONVICTED THE APPRENTICE’S VADE MECUM THE SEASONABLE EXAMINATION OF THE PLEAS AND PRETENSIONS LETTERS WRITTEN TO AND FOR PARTICULAR FRIENDS A TOUR THRO’ THE WHOLE ISLAND OF GREAT BRITAIN COPY OF LETTER TO A LADY, WHO WAS SOLICITOUS FOR AN ADDITIONAL VOLUME TO THE HISTORY OF SIR CHARLES GRANDISON ANSWER TO A LETTER FROM A FRIEND SIX ORIGINAL LETTERS UPON DUELLING PREFACE TO AUBIN: A COLLECTION OF ENTERTAINING HISTORIES AND NOVELS The Poetry A VERSE FROM THE GENTLEMAN S MAGAZINE The Criticism REMARKS ON CLARISSA, &c. by Sarah Fielding THE ENGLISH NOVELISTS by William Hazlitt The Biographies THE LIFE OF SAMUEL RICHARDSON by Sir Walter Scott SAMUEL RICHARDSON: A BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL STUDY by Clara Linklater Thomson Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles