If you have not read Clarissa, you are a pleb. It's

ok

My lit prof said Pamela is bad, so I'm gonna pass on Richardson.

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>>8611530
Isn't that a children's novel?

>>8611530

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/14/100-best-books-clarissa-samuel-richardson

>>8611530
I'm only going to read it if she explains it all

I work in a bookstore and this book is a bitch. We have a penguin classics edition and all it does is sit there and get damaged because of how fucking huge it is. You touch it at all it finds a way to break itself. Cracks down the spine, dinged up corners, dents from its own sheer weight. The thing seriously wants to destroy itself. Sold it once and the same day the person returned it for whatever reason. I imagine because they realized they would have to carry it around the whole day so they just went home and got it on Amazon. The most that that book has ever moved, or will ever move.

I can't remember if I tried reading this one or Pamela. It's crucial to the canon if you take Leslie Fiedler seriously.

>>8611530
Since I've read it twice I will agree with OP.

>>8612576
What makes it more important than say Robinson Crusoe in terms of the history of the novel? It seems like most critics weigh Richardson higher than Defoe even though Defoe's prose is more fun to read.