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Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded Paperback – 21 Sept. 2022

by Samuel Richardson (Author)
3.1 3.1 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
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One of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century London, Pamela also marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel. In the words of one contemporary, it divided the world into two different Parties, Pamelists and Anti-pamelists, even eclipsing the sensational factional politics of the day.

Preached for its morality, and denounced as pornography in disguise, it 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.
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    454 pages
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    English
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    21 Sept. 2022
  4. Dimensions
    15.24 x 2.9 x 22.86 cm
  5. ISBN-13
    979-8354040797
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BG5JN8BC
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (21 Sept. 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 454 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8354040797
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 2.9 x 22.86 cm
  • Customer reviews:
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Samuel Richardson

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Samuel L. Richardson III is a successful entrepreneur, investor, author, and speaker. Though he works in the field of money, his real goal is to make this world a better place. He founded his Property over Poverty real estate academy with the hopes of creating something that benefits many generations to come.

Samuel also has a YouTube channel where he inspires people to be more health-conscious as well as money-conscious, to live happier, more fulfilled lives. He is a true example that dreams can come true if you really work hard for them.

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  • Lizzie maisels
    5.0 out of 5 stars Its a book written in the english that was spoken and written in the late 19th century.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 December 2019
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    It is a very long novel supposed to be the first novel of it's kind in the new world of literature.
    I persevered right through it wanting to know what would happen in the end. I am almost at the end now thank goodness! It did keep me hooked I must say, and felt it was part of my novel reading education. I saw a television programme about how novels evolved and decided to try the supposedly first novel ever written. The lqnguage takes some getting used to!
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  • Carole Mainstone
    1.0 out of 5 stars Rip off.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 February 2019
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    There was something very strange about this edition. It sounded like the preface had been written in a foreign language and then translated into English by a computer. There was a piece of text at the start which indicated that the book should be free of charge, yet Amazon charged for it. The text of the book itself seemed to have been reinterpreted by an American computer, which used such words as 'mom' and 'hassle'. It is a mess.
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  • Kim
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 November 2015
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    Interesting glimpse of a time gone bye. First romantic novel?
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  • Chloe
    1.0 out of 5 stars Not English?
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 April 2020
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    Once again I have been sold a classic originally written in English that reads like a very bad translation. It's not worth the £3 i spent
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  • Roman Clodia
    4.0 out of 5 stars A book which has to be read on its own terms
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 July 2015
    Pamela is one of those books that always has to appear on undergraduate courses on the history of the novel because it was so influential but it is undoubtedly a book which hasn't stood the tests of time well and which is a difficult book for us to read today. Told in epistolary form, it tells the story of Pamela, a servant girl, pursued obsessively by her master who hides in cupboards, gropes her and rapes her until they finally get married...!

    So, ok, the story itself might be pretty offensive to us today and the method of telling is frequently repetitive, but it does tell us quite a lot about the culture, gender relations, and role of literature of the time in which it was written. Realism wasn't necessarily what Richardson was aiming for, and neither is the sort of psychological dimension which appears in the 19th century alongside the growth of scientific psychology.

    So this is very much a book which you have to take on its own terms - it certainly won't be for everyone but does have a strange kind of vitality and energy of its own.

    This Dover Thrift Kindle edition gives the unabridged text with a 1-page biography of Richardson. It is well-formatted but has no explanatory notes which are often helpful to students reading this for the first time. Recommended as a reliable digital text to supplement a scholarly edition or for general readers wanting to experience this sometimes unintentionally comic novel which is yet hugely influential.

    (I received a review copy via Netgalley)
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  • K. J. Kelly
    4.0 out of 5 stars Tough read but an important classic
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 February 2016
    One of the hardest books I've ever read - not because of difficult content or language, but sheer length and the inability to end!

    My edition was 450 pages of minuscule type, no chapter breaks, thin paper. A mountain of a book to conquer, but I was determined I would finish this and be able to SAY I'd finished this.

    It is worth it, such a famous and trend-setting novel. But it is frustrating for a modern reader to put themselves through.

    In epistolary (letter) form, servant Pamela writes to her poverty-stricken parents of her trials beating of the advances of her (dead) mistress's son, her master, who takes a shine to the teenage employee.

    Her faith, her pride, her horror of dishonour all conjoin in her letters to show us a determined young lady. Her master tries every trick in the book (outright physical assault, hiding in Pamela's room, through to kidnap!) but fainting, arguing and pleas for mercy fend off his attempts. Can Pamela's charms and determination outlast his ardour?

    I did like this, but it DOES go on forever. It's hard to believe just what 'Mr B' tries in order to seduce/force himself on Pamela. And that she's successful for so long.

    The story takes a turn partway and the pair emerge into a new relationship, one very much of another era, which is fascinating as much as it is hard to understand in this day and age. There are instances where I could see the influences on both Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre, with lines, characters and plot-lines that their authors could have taken from Richardson's work.

    The religion is hard to swallow for a modern non-believer, with one particular line about atheists both hilarious and offensive. A later plot about another woman is wrapped up remarkably quickly after all that has gone before. I found the turnaround of Mr B a little convenient, and got very tired of Pamela's dad weeping so very often. But I do understand that in the mode of writing at the time this would have been stylistically common.

    This is a classic I'm really pleased to say I've read, but not one I'm likely to revisit. Certainly not a joy to read like Pride and Prejudice or Evelina, but a seminal piece of literary history.
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  • Ellen
    1.0 out of 5 stars Difficult to Read
    Reviewed in Canada on 5 October 2020
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    I could not get past the very old speech and phrases. I don’t know what I expected as I knew it was written long ago but I gave up after one chapter.
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  • dododson
    3.0 out of 5 stars Georgian "Romance"
    Reviewed in the United States on 12 August 2017
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    Mentioned in Lucy Worsley's YouTube, A Very British Romance as the earliest English romance. It was so popular in its day, 1700's, one could buy Pamela fans. Real bells rang in churches when the fictitious Pamela married. The story is written as a journal of letters written as poor Pamela, a maid, kidnapped by then married to a "naughty" Lord. She faints a number of times which spares her from rape, then influences the rake by her own good character and conduct. He finds he cannot live without her.

    Implausible, verbose, moralizing. One would CAN' T imagine reading it twice, but ought to once.
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  • ezio
    5.0 out of 5 stars Tutto ok
    Reviewed in Italy on 16 February 2018
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    Ottimo libro, arrivato velocemente e ben imballato. L'ho acquistato per motivi di studio(difatti la copertina è morbida e non rigida, ripagata come per collezione). Lo consiglio.
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  • Threepence Worth
    1.0 out of 5 stars Junk version
    Reviewed in Australia on 10 October 2020
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    I resent having to rate this book at all. There were so many rubbish versions that are unreadable.
    When my Bookclub decided to read this book I was very interested. However, when I went to purchase this from Amazon onto my Kindle I experienced a great deal of frustration as so many versions are complete junk.
    The version I was finally able to read was a digireads.com book. The book itself is a good story, well told and will hold the readers attention through all the trials and tribulations of the main protagonist. It is an extremely moralistic tale, typical of the era in which it was written, but still of some considerable literary merit.
    But the rubbish versions proliferate! Dear mother and father does not translate into pricey mom and dad! My dear old lady is not my expensive vintage female!
    And there were a great number of rubbish versions on Amazon. I bought several before I learned to download a sample and inspect it before purchasing.
    Amazon need to get onto this as it occurs frequently in older books, those published before 1900.
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  • Nicole W.
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on 30 April 2016
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    This is a good example of an early epistolary novel.
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