Pamela Or Virtue Rewarded |
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Author:
| Richardson, Samuel |
Editor:
| Keymer, Thomas Wakely, Alice |
Series title: | Oxford World's Classics Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-282960-3 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2001 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $20.95 |
Book Description:
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One of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century London as well as a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel, Pamela 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, 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...
More DescriptionOne of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century London as well as a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel, Pamela 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, 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, from which Richardson later retreated in a series of defensive revisions, this edition makes available the version of Pamela that aroused such widespread controversy on its first appearance.