Clarissa or the History of A Young Lady by Samuel Richardson Paperback Book 9780140432152

Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into fleeing 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 sexual advances