Samuel Richardson - Pamela

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Paperback - As new

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2.8/5 Goodreads

Synopsis
One of the most spectacular successes of the burgeoning 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 Antipamelists'. Preached up 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, but by a printer who had narrowly escaped imprisonment for the seditious output of his press, 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, which Richardson later defensively revised, this edition makes available the version of Pamela that aroused such widespread controversy on its first appearance.