Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady

A rakish city gentleman determines to seduce the youngest daughter of the Harlowe household in this eighteenth-century romance 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.