Samuel Richardson eBooks

"Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded" is an epistolary novel (a novel written as a series of letters) by Samuel Richardson, first published in 1740. It tells the story of a beautiful 15-year old maidservant named Pamela Andrews, whose nobleman master, Mr. B, makes unwanted advances towards her after the death of his mother, whose maid she was since age 12.

This is the first edition to assemble all of the earliest known works by Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), one of the most influential authors in the English tradition. Richardson's exercises in conduct-writing, >>

Samuel Richardson was an 18th century British novelist. He is most noted for developing the epistolary form of writing in which letters are used throughout the work. His most famous works are Clarissa >>

The First part of PAMELA met with a success greatly exceeding the most sanguine expectations: and the Editor hopes, that the Letters which compose this Part will be found equally written to NATURE, avoiding >>

Miss Anne Howe, à Miss Clarisse Harlove.

il s'est passé une scène fort vive, ou plutôt une vraie scène d'injures entre ma soeur et moi.

Enfin, mon cher Joseph, votre jeune et chère demoiselle consent à se délivrer elle-même de la cruelle persécution qu'elle souffre depuis si long-tems. Elle se rendra au jardin, lundi, vers quatre heures >>

Quand vous considérez ma déplorable situation, et tant de circonstances choquantes dont elle est accompagnée, quelques-unes même si mortifiantes pour ma fierté ; toutes aggravées par le contenu de la lettre >>

à Hamstead, vendredi 9 juin, à sept heures du matin.

au château de M, vendredi, 21 de juillet.