Pamela - Volume 2
by Samuel Richardson
Classic Pamela Richardson's 2nd volume. One of the most impressive achievements of London's growing literary market of the eightieth century, Pamela was a decisive moment in the emergence of the modern novel. According to one contemporary, he divided the world into "two different parties, the pammelist and the anti-pamelist," even dwarfing the sensational factional politics of the time. Preaching for his morality and condemned as pornography in disguise, he vividly describes the long-standing resistance of the young servant's predatory master to his attempts to seduce him. Written in the voice of her low-born hero, but barely freed from prison fifteen years ago due to the provocative release of her press, Pamela is not only a work of innovative psychological complexity, but also a convincing and provocative work of power and its abuses.
