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Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded

Samuel Richardson

  • Novel
  • Book language: English
  • 503 pages

Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded is an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, told through letters. It follows a young servant, Pamela Andrews, whose integrity is tested by her wealthy master, and it offers a vivid picture of eighteenth-century morality, class and courtship. It is worth listening to as a landmark of the early English novel and of psychological realism.

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Opening of the book

PAMELA
or
VIRTUE REWARDED
By Samuel Richardson

CONTENTS
PUBLISHERS’ NOTE
PAMELA, or VIRTUE REWARDED
LETTER I
LETTER II
LETTER III
LETTER IV
LETTER V
LETTER VI
LETTER VII
LETTER VIII
LETTER IX
LETTER X
LETTER XI
LETTER XII
LETTER XIII
LETTER XIV
LETTER XV
LETTER XVI
LETTER XVII
LETTER XVIII
LETTER XIX
LETTER XX
LETTER XXI
LETTER XXII

LETTER XXIII
LETTER XXIV
LETTER XXV
LETTER XXVI
LETTER XXVII
LETTER XXVIII
LETTER XXIX
LETTER XXX
LETTER XXXI
LETTER XXXII

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Contents

  1. PAMELA or VIRTUE REWARDED
  2. CONTENTS
  3. PUBLISHERS’ NOTE
  4. LETTER I
  5. LETTER II
  6. LETTER III
  7. LETTER IV
  8. LETTER V
  9. LETTER VI
  10. LETTER VII
  11. LETTER VIII
  12. LETTER IX
  13. LETTER X
  14. LETTER XI
  15. LETTER XII
  16. LETTER XIII
  17. LETTER XIV
  18. LETTER XV
  19. LETTER XVI
  20. v LETTER XVII
  21. LETTER XVIII
  22. LETTER XIX
  23. LETTER XX
  24. LETTER XXI
  25. LETTER XXII
  26. LETTER XXIII
  27. LETTER XXIV
  28. LETTER XXV
  29. LETTER XXVI
  30. LETTER XXVII

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