by Samuel Richardson · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140431407
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«Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded» is Samuel Richardson's epistolary novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback, with 544 pages in English.
Pamela Andrews, a fifteen-year-old servant, narrates in the first person how she resists the pressures and threats of her master, Mr. B, determined to preserve her virtue. The novel, in epistolary form, combines psychological tension, comedy and social criticism, and examines virtue, power, class difference and marriage in eighteenth-century England.
Originally published in 1740, it was Richardson's first novel; this 1981 edition includes an introduction by Margaret Anne Doody and editing by Peter Sabor.
Recommended for readers of English literary classics, interested in the epistolary novel and in eighteenth-century historical romances.
Samuel Richardson was an English writer and printer known for three epistolary novels: Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady (1748) and The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753). He printed almost 500 works, including journals and magazines, working periodically with the London bookseller Andrew Millar.
