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Samuel Richardson

Born

in Mackworth, Derbyshire, England

August 19, 1689

Died

July 04, 1761

Genre

Fiction

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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.

People best know major 18th-century epistolary novels Sir Charles Grandison (1753).

Richardson, an established printer and publisher for most of his life, at the age of 51 years then wrote his first novel; people immediately most admired him of his time.

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Samuel Richardson’s books

Average rating: 3.03 · 23,009 ratings · 2,022 reviews · 1,820 distinct works • Similar authors

	Pamela 2.78 avg rating — 10,846 ratings — published 1740 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady 3.39 avg rating — 8,506 ratings — published 1748 — 525 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pamela by Samuel Richardson, Thomas Keymer (Editor), Alice Wakely (Editor) 2.66 avg rating — 2,542 ratings — 598 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady - Volume 1 (of 9) 3.38 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 1748 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The History of Sir Charles Grandison Bar 3.59 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 1753 — 304 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady - Volume 2 (of 9) 3.32 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 1748 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady - Volume 3 (of 9) 3.30 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1748 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clarissa Harlowe; or, The History of a Young Lady - Volume 9 (of 9) 3.25 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1748 — 101 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pamela : Volume 2 3.45 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1741 — 89 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clarissa: or The History of a Young Lady, Volume 1 4.05 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2012 — 141 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Samuel Richardson

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady (9 books)
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Samuel Richardson

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Quotes by Samuel Richardson (?)

“I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.”
― Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady

tags: life

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

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“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

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Polls

3rd Qtr (July -Sept) Long Read

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 776 pages, 1880

64 votes, 19.5%

The Arabian Nights, 1049 pages, 800

55 votes, 16.8%

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, 798 pages, 1320

35 votes, 10.7%

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 684 pages, 1915

31 votes, 9.5%

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens, 864 pages, 1839

30 votes, 9.1%

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, 1182 pages, 1021

20 votes, 6.1%

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann, 731 pages, 1901

13 votes, 4.0%

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding, 975 pages, 1749

13 votes, 4.0%

The Sagas of Icelanders, 782 pages, 1200

9 votes, 2.7%

The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, 1248 pages, 1590

9 votes, 2.7%

Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe, 644 pages, 1929

8 votes, 2.4%

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, 909 pages, 1353

7 votes, 2.1%

Texas by James A. Michener, 1472 pages, 1985

7 votes, 2.1%

Shōgun by James Clavell, 1152 pages, 1975

7 votes, 2.1%

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, 1139 pages, 1999

7 votes, 2.1%

Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson, 1534 pages, 1748

7 votes, 2.1%

A Dream of Red Mansion by Cao Xueqin, 2400 pages, 1791

6 votes, 1.8%

328 total votes

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