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Pamela Volume 2: Virtue Rewarded

Author
Samuel Richardson
Series
Pamela
Language
English
Length
514 pages
ISBN
9781787248946
Published
19 September 2018
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Pamela
  • Clarissa
  • Epistolary
  • diary
  • letters
  • secret diary
  • passion
  • aristocracy
  • money
  • romance

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Description

An epistolary novel telling the story of a beautiful 15-year-old maidservant named Pamela Andrews, whose country landowner master, Mr. B, makes unwanted and inappropriate advances towards her after the death of his mother. After Mr. B attempts unsuccessfully to seduce and rape her multiple times, he eventually rewards her virtue when he sincerely proposes an equitable marriage to her. Pamela, who is emotionally fragile and confused by Mr. B's manipulation, accepts his proposal. In the novel's second part, Pamela marries Mr. B and tries to acclimatize to upper-class society.

Author

Samuel Richardson (1689–1761) was a London printer who taught the English novel how to think from the inside. Pamela and Clarissa are vast books of letters: virtue under siege, feeling as plot, and readers who wait on the next envelope. He made consciousness dramatic — not action on the road, but conscience in a room. Fielding mocked him; Europe copied him. Clarissa remains one of the longest, fiercest moral tragedies in the language.

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