Sir Charles Grandison

by Samuel Richardson · 1753

An epistolary portrait of a paragon gentleman whose virtue steers him between two women who love him.

Books that mention Sir Charles Grandison (3)

• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: “She very often reads Sir Charles Grandison herself; but new books do not fall in our way."”
• How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “Sanmel Richardson's marvelous Clarissa and his Sir Charles Grandison; Fanny Burney's Evelina.”
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson: “They talked together and played chess; the doctor finished Pamela and began on Sir Charles Grandison.”