Samuel Richardson

by R.F. Brissenden

Samuel Richardson (1680-1761) was one of the major English novelists of the eighteenth century. Pamela, Clarissa Harlowe and Sir Charles Grandison are admired wherever English literature is read, and although Mr. Brissenden is very much to the point in his remark that 'few genuinely great novelists have been so extravagantly praised in their own day and so largely ignored by succeeding generations', he has himself given the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582011019
• ISBN13: 9780582011014
• Release Date: April 1965
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 42 Pages