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Samuel Richardson's first novel, Pamela: or Virtue Rewarded (1740) was a bestseller in its time. As its heroine became an icon of feminine virtue, so she also became the subject of vicious parody. Within its didactic account of a servant girl who resists her libidinous master, this brilliant epiContinue
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lrb published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010
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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 592 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0192829602
- ISBN-13: 9780192829603
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Pub date: May 31, 2001
- 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)