"Clarissa"

For some reason I found myself reading "Clarissa" recently (and staying up far too late several nights running to finish each volume of what is infamously cited as the longest novel in the English language).( Read more... )

I was surprised to find that the BBC had in fact done an adaptation in 1991, starring of all people Sean Bean as Lovelace: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101066/
A presumably pirated version has been uploaded to YouTube under the guise of "fair usage", where I watched it. ( Read more... )