Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson
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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. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761 |
|---|---|
| Title | Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela%3B_or,_Virtue_Rewarded |
| Credits | Tapio Riikonen and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 82.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Didactic fiction |
| Subject | England -- Fiction |
| Subject | Epistolary fiction |
| Subject | Master and servant -- Fiction |
| Subject | Kidnapping victims -- Fiction |
| Subject | Virtue -- Fiction |
| Subject | Women household employees -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 6124 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-06124-5 |
| Release Date | Jul 1, 2004 |
| Last Update | Nov 17, 2022 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 3734 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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