Pamela, Volume One
1901
First Published
2.97
Average Rating
508
Number of Pages
Based on actual events, Pamela is the story of a young girl who goes to work in a private residence and finds herself pursued by her employer's son, described as a 'gentleman of free principles.' Unfolding through letters, the novel depicts with much feeling Pamela's struggles to decide how to respond to her would-be seducer and to determine her place in society.
Avg Rating
2.97
Number of Ratings
32
5 STARS
6%
4 STARS
22%
3 STARS
38%
2 STARS
31%
1 STARS
3%
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Author
Samuel Richardson
Author · 15 books
Pamela (1740) and Clarissa Harlowe (1748) of English writer Samuel Richardson helped to legitimize the novel as a literary form in English. People best know major 18th-century epistolary novels Sir Charles Grandison (1753). Richardson, an established printer and publisher for most of his life, at the age of 51 years then wrote his first novel; people immediately most admired him of his time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel\_...
