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Pamela : or, Virtue rewarded / by Samuel Richardson, introd. by William M. Sale, Jr.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761.
- Series:
- Norton library ; N12.
- The Norton library ; N12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Master and servant--Fiction.
- Master and servant.
- Virtue.
- England.
- Women household employees--Fiction.
- Women household employees.
- Kidnapping victims--Fiction.
- Kidnapping victims.
- Virtue--Fiction.
- England--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Didactic fiction.
- Epistolary fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 533 pages ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Norton, [1958]
- Summary:
- The story of a gentleman in 18th century England marrying a servant girl, a challenge to the social hierarchy. This shows a typical representative of the middle class which had already challenged the aristocracy and was beginning to impose its ideal of Protestant respectability and hard work on England and the world.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761. Pamela.
- ISBN:
- 0393001660
- 9780393001662
- OCLC:
- 1076845
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