Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798419500273)

One of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century London, Pamela also marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel. In the words of one contemporary, it divided the world "into two different Parties, Pamelists and Anti-pamelists," even eclipsing the sensational factional politics of the day. Preached for its morality, and denounced as pornography in disguise, it vividly describes a young servant's long resistance to the attempts of her predatory master to seduce her. Written in the voice of its low-born heroine, Pamela is not only a work of pioneering psychological complexity, but also a compelling and provocative study of power and its abuse.

Based on the original text of 1740, from which Richardson later retreated in a series of defensive revisions, this edition makes available the version of Pamela that aroused such widespread controversy on its first appearance.

Author: Samuel Richardson
ISBN-10: 8419500275
ISBN-13: 9798419500273
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 02/19/2022
Pages: 692
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.74lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.39d