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.
- ISBN10 1633557200
- ISBN13 9781633557208
- Publish Date 3 September 2014 (first published 22 December 2003)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Start Publishing
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 453
- Language English