Pamela (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): Or Virtue Rewarded

by Samuel Richardson

Overview

Published in 1740, this hugely successful epistolary novel launched Richardson's literary career.  Some readers and critics saw the story of the efforts of a virtuous young servant girl to resist the seductions of her master as tendentious if not hypocritical morality, others as sensationalistic near-pornography, and still others as a praiseworthy illustration of Christian morality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411435933
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	02/15/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	562
Sales rank:	522,354
File size:	538 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) was an early English novelist who invented the epistolary novel—the novel in letters.  He is best remembered today for his novels Pamela (1740), famously mocked by his contemporary and rival, Henry Fielding, in the novel Shamela—and Clarissa (1748).