Pamela or Virtue Rewarded Vol 1 Author:Samuel Richardson This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1902 edition by William Heinemann, London. — Samuel Richardson's first novel, Pamela: or Virtue Rewarded (1740) was a bestseller in its time. As its heroine became an icon of feminine virtue, so she also became the subject of vicious parody. Within its didactic account of a servant girl w... more »ho resists her libidinous master, this brilliant epistolary novel creates high erotic and moral tension.« less