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Samuel Richardson

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Samuel Richardson


Born
in Mackworth, Derbyshire, England
August 19, 1689

Died
July 04, 1761

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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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Average rating: 3.02 · 23,626 ratings · 2,142 reviews · 1,671 distinct worksSimilar authors
Pamela

2.75 avg rating — 13,868 ratings — published 1740 — 621 editions
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Clarissa, or, The History o...

3.40 avg rating — 8,596 ratings — published 1748 — 524 editions
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Clarissa Harlowe; or the hi...

3.38 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 1748 — 17 editions
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The History of Sir Charles ...

3.60 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 1753 — 304 editions
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Clarissa Harlowe; or the hi...

3.37 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1748 — 5 editions
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Clarissa Harlowe; or the hi...

3.30 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1748 — 21 editions
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Clarissa Harlowe; or, The H...

3.29 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1748 — 101 editions
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Pamela : Volume 2

3.44 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1741 — 89 editions
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Clarissa: or The History of...

3.95 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2012 — 141 editions
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Clarissa Harlowe; or the hi...

3.37 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1748 — 11 editions
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“I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.”
Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady
tags: life

“Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.”
Samuel Richardson, Pamela

“Tired of myself longing for what I have not”
Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady

Polls

Fourth Quarter 2014 Long Read

1862, Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, 1463 pages
 
  35 votes, 20.8%

 
  25 votes, 14.9%

1954, The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1178 pages
 
  21 votes, 12.5%

1872, Middlemarch by George Eliot, 904 pages
 
  20 votes, 11.9%

 
  17 votes, 10.1%

800 BC, The Iliad by Homer, 683 pages
 
  11 votes, 6.5%

1874, The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne, 723 pages
 
  11 votes, 6.5%

1957, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, 1168 pages
 
  9 votes, 5.4%

1993, A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, 1474 pages
 
  8 votes, 4.8%

 
  5 votes, 3.0%

1996, Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, 1079 pages
 
  5 votes, 3.0%

 
  1 vote, 0.6%

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