TODAY'S BOOK:
Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
I don't expect that many of the readers of my blog have rushed out to buy Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady. The reason is not the storyline or the quality of the writing, but rather the fact that it is long. In fact it is very, very long and at around a million words (I had to look this up) it is one of the longest novels in the English language.
But I've always thought one of my minor claims to fame is that I indeed read all of it and wrote a paper about it during my honours year at university. I had to make do with library copies at the time, but today it would be possible to buy it at a reasonable price in printed format or even download it in e-book format.
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