It tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family and is regarded as one of the longest novels in the English language (based on estimated word count).
It tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family and is regarded as one of the longest novels in the English language (based on estimated word count).
Volume 1 of Richardson's classic Pamela. One of the most spectacular successes of the burgeoning literary marketplace of eighteeent-century London, Pamela also marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel.
Pamela tells the story of a 15-yr-old maidservant named Pamela Andrews, whose company, Mr. B, a wealthy landowner, makes unwanted and inappropriate advances closer to her after the demise of his mother.