Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
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Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Richardson, Samuel (1689–1761).
Catalogue synopsis
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"Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded" by Samuel Richardson is an epistolary novel published in 1740. Through letters and journal entries, fifteen-year-old maidservant Pamela Andrews recounts her employer Mr. B's persistent unwanted advances after his mother's death. Torn between her religious principles and desire for approval, Pamela faces seduction attempts, assaults, and kidnapping as the wealthy landowner pursues her. This groundbreaking work explores virtue, class barriers, and the troubling boundaries between aggression and courtship in eighteenth-century England.
Book and edition facts
- Title: Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
- Author credits: Richardson, Samuel (1689–1761)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Didactic fiction
- England -- Fiction
- Epistolary fiction
- Kidnapping victims -- Fiction
- Master and servant -- Fiction
- Virtue -- Fiction
- Women household employees -- Fiction
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- Banned Books from Anne Haight's list
- Category: British Literature
- Category: Novels
- Opera
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