Pamela
Or, Virtue Rewarded
By Samuel Richardson, Peter Sabor (Editor), Margaret A. Doody (Preface)




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‘I cannot be patient, I cannot be passive, when my virtue is in danger’
Fifteen-year-old Pamela Andrews, alone and unprotected, is relentlessly pursued by her dead mistress’s son. Although she is attracted to young Mr B., she holds out against his demands and threats of abduction and rape, d Continue
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Io sono un lettore di lungo corso e ho affrontato poemi e racconti, mostri sacri e sconosciuti, sumeri e marziani. Questo per dire che non mi lascio scoraggiare dalla vetustà di un’opera e tanto meno dalla sua lunghezza, quindi ero partito con questo libro senza pregiudizio alcuno per l’eventuale po ... (continue)
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- English Books
- Paperback 538 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0140431403
- ISBN-13: 9780140431407
- Publisher: Penguin
- Pub date: Jan 01, 1980
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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Samuel Richardson’s account of a servant girl’s defence of her virtue against the advances of her lascivious master (‘Mr B’), given in her own letters, made what we now call ‘the Novel’ (though Richardson never attached this label to his book) respec ... (read full critics)