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The Samuel Richardson Library
Enter a world of letters, secrets, virtue, temptation, and consequence.
The Samuel Richardson Library presents the complete works of one of the great founders of the English novel, read in full. Here are private thoughts committed to paper, hearts tested by love and ambition, and characters forced to choose between desire, duty, reputation, and conscience.
From the trials of Pamela to the devastating moral drama of Clarissa, these are stories in which every letter may conceal a motive, reveal a…
Episodes
- The Samuel Richardson Library
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Volume 1 Letter 7
In which the poor Pamela, though cruelly deceived and carried far from her home, trusts in divine providence amidst the perplexities and perils contrived by…
- The Samuel Richardson Library
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Volume 1 Letter 6
In which the gentle Pamela, beset by trials and dissembled kindness, resolutely contends with her master’s perplexing proposals and intricate devices, mindful…
- The Samuel Richardson Library
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Volume 1 Letter 5
In which the gentle Pamela details her conflicted feelings and steadfast virtue amidst the vexations and insinuations of her master, who oscillates between…
- The Samuel Richardson Library
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Volume 1 Letter 4
In which the gentle Pamela, adorned in modest attire befitting her humble condition, encounters a mixture of surprise and harshness from her master and…
- The Samuel Richardson Library
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Volume 1 Letter 3
In which Pamela, with gentle forthrightness and pious reflection, confides in Mrs. Jervis her fears and resolutions regarding her precarious situation, all the…
- The Samuel Richardson Library
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Volume 1 Letter 2
In which the gentle and virtuous Pamela confides her anxieties and troubles to her kind companion Mrs. Jervis, who offers comfort and counsel amidst the uneasy…
- The Samuel Richardson Library
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Volume 1 Letter 1
In which a humble and virtuous maidservant, Pamela, endeavours to convey to her dear parents the trials and blessings bestowed upon her following the passing…