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What is regarded as Samuel Richardson's greatest work?

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Richardson wrote two more long, epistolary novels, Clarissa Harlowe (7 vol., 1747-48), the tragic story of a girl who runs off with her seducer, regarded today as his best work, and The History of Sir Charles Grandison (7 vol., 1753-54).

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