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Pamela - Virtue Rewarded By Samuel Richardson. Complete Un-Edited Edition. Once Banned Books. Samuel Richardson, the first, in order of time, of the great English novelists, was born in 1689 and died at London in 1761. He was a printer by trade, and rose to be master of the Stationers' Company. That he also became a novelist was due to his skill as a letter-writer, which brought him, in his fiftieth year, a commission to write a volume of model "familiar letters" as an aid to persons too illiterate to compose their own. The notion of connecting these letters by a story which had interested him suggested the plot of "Pamela" and determined its epistolary form—a form which was retained in his later works. This novel (published 1740) created an epoch in the history of English fiction, and, with its successors, exerted a wide influence upon Continental literature. It is appropriately included in a series which is designed to form a group of studies of English life by the masters of English fiction. For it marked the transition from the novel of adventure to the novel of character—from the narration of entertaining events to the study of men and of manners, of motives and of sentiments. In it the romantic interest of the story (which is of the slightest) is subordinated to the moral interest in the conduct of its characters in the various situations in which they are placed. Upon this aspect of the "drama of human life" Richardson cast a most observant, if not always a penetrating glance. His works are an almost microscopically detailed picture of English domestic life in the early part of the eighteenth century. Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded is an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, first published in 1740. It tells the story of a beautiful 15-year old maidservant named Pamela Andrews, whose country landowner master, Mr. B, makes unwanted advances towards her after the death of his mother, whose maid Pamela had been since age 12. Mr. B is infatuated with her, first by her looks and then her innocence and intelligence, but his high rank hinders him from proposing marriage. He abducts her, locks her up in one of his estates, and attempts to seduce and rape her. She rejects him continually, but starts to realise that she is falling in love with him. He intercepts her letters to her parents; reading them, he becomes even more enamored by her innocence, intelligence, and continuous escape attempts. Her virtue is eventually rewarded when he sincerely proposes an equitable marriage to her. In the novel's second part, Pamela attempts to build a successful relationship with him and to acclimatise to upper class society. The story, a best-seller of its time, was very widely read but criticised for its perceived licentiousness.

Hardcover:

9781443739801, titled "Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded," | Obscure Pr, November 30, 2008, cover price $43.95
9781428010970 | Indypublish.Com, June 30, 2006, cover price $68.99
9781414266121 | Indypublish.Com, December 1, 2003, cover price $101.99

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9781499728200, titled "Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded" | Createspace Independent Pub, June 3, 2014, cover price $8.49
9781499710335, titled "Pamela: or; Virtue Rewarded" | Createspace Independent Pub, May 28, 2014, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Pamela - Virtue Rewarded By Samuel Richardson.
9781495468117, titled "Pamela, Or, Virtue Rewarded" | Createspace Independent Pub, February 7, 2014, cover price $8.99
9781493726608, titled "Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded" | Createspace Independent Pub, November 11, 2013, cover price $26.00
9781486149445, titled "Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded" | Lightning Source Inc, June 20, 2012, cover price $9.94
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Product Description: Born a village girl, Kerensa Carlee had only her beauty and wit to live by. From the moment she saw it, Kerensa determined to become mistress of St Larnston Abbas, home of the aristocratic St Larnston family for many generations. When Mellyora Martin befriended her, she seized her chance...read more

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9780786234608 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, November 1, 2001), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Born a village girl, Kerensa Carlee had only her beauty and wit to live by.
9780385006095 | Doubleday, June 1, 1965, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A young woman finds her life is in danger after becoming the mistress of a home that was once a haunted convent

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780745160320 | Chivers Audio Books, July 1, 1990, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Born a village girl, Kerensa Carlee had only her beauty and wit to live by.

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Product Description: 1929. Heyward's first novel Porgy was an immediate success. He started his literary career with short stories of Negro life in his native South and his novel Mamba's Daughters returns to that theme. The book begins: It was no mere chance that, during the first decade of the new century, brought Mamba out of the darkness of the underworld into the light of the Wentworths' kitchen...read more

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9780910220590 | Norman Berg, June 1, 1974, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: 1929.

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9781417942176, titled "Mamba's Daughters A Novel Of Charleston" | Kessinger Pub Co, August 31, 2004, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: 1929.
9781570030420 | Reprint edition (Univ of South Carolina Pr, February 1, 1995), cover price $19.95

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9780792718901 | Large print edition (Chivers North Amer, May 1, 1994), cover price $23.95
9780708981320 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, August 1, 1983), cover price $13.00
9780434142651 | Gardners Books, July 5, 1976, cover price $29.65

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9780552144469 | Bantam Uk, July 1, 1997, cover price $10.95
9780792718895 | Large print edition (Chivers North Amer, October 1, 1994), cover price $22.95
9780552106306 | Corgi, April 1, 1993, cover price $7.99

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Product Description: Set in England from the early 1870s onward, the novel is about a young, pious woman from a poor working-class family who, while working as a kitchen maid, is seduced by another employee, becomes pregnant, is deserted by her lover, and against all odds decides to raise her child as a single mother...read more

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9780915864539 | Academy Chicago Pub, March 1, 1978, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Set in England from the early 1870s onward, the novel is about a young, pious woman from a poor working-class family who, while working as a kitchen maid, is seduced by another employee, becomes pregnant, is deserted by her lover, and against all odds decides to raise her child as a single mother.

Hardcover:

9780130563415 | Prentice Hall Direct, December 1, 1978, cover price $12.50

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Mildred, a Black domestic, shares her observations on the white family for whom she works in 1950s New York

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9780807009031 | Reprint edition (Beacon Pr, September 1, 1986), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Mildred, a Black domestic, shares her observations on the white family for whom she works in 1950s New York

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Product Description: "The Old Manor House Volume II" from Charlotte Turner Smith. English Romantic poet and novelist (1749-1806).

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9781512153507 | Createspace Independent Pub, May 11, 2015, cover price $14.90 | About this edition: "The Old Manor House Volume II" from Charlotte Turner Smith.
9780192822024 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 1989, cover price $8.95 | also contains How to Read T. F. Torrance: Understanding His Trinitarian & Scientific Theology | About this edition: This is a sentimental romance with a Gothic setting, written in 1793 by Charlotte Smith, a poet and novelist who wrote to support her eight children.
9780863581359 | Pandora Pr, November 1, 1987, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Orlando must survive the American War of Independence in order to marry Monimia, his noble, yet poor, sweetheart

The obsessive, undying love between Aurora and Nicholas leads to murder and disinheritance but survives the wrath of England's rebelling lower classes and the founding of the colony New Zealand where the saga continues

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9780525245780 | E P Dutton, June 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The obsessive, undying love between Aurora and Nicholas leads to murder and disinheritance but survives the wrath of England's rebelling lower classes and the founding of the colony New Zealand where the saga continues

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9780451162113 | Reprint edition (New Amer Library, July 1, 1989), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: The obsessive, undying love between Aurora and Nicholas leads to murder and disinheritance but survives the wrath of England's rebelling lower classes and the founding of the colony New Zealand where the saga continues

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Product Description: In acclaimed author Eva Figes' inventive reshaping of the pop psychological thriller, her fifth novel opens as Nelly Dean, a middle-aged woman suffering from amnesia, checks into a small-town hotel with a suitcase full of cash and no idea where it - or she - came from...read more

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9781564783134 | 1 edition (Dalkey Archive Pr, February 1, 2002), cover price $12.50 | About this edition: In acclaimed author Eva Figes' inventive reshaping of the pop psychological thriller, her fifth novel opens as Nelly Dean, a middle-aged woman suffering from amnesia, checks into a small-town hotel with a suitcase full of cash and no idea where it - or she - came from.
9780679720355 | Pantheon Books, September 1, 1988, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Nelly, an amnesia victim, finds herself in a strange town with a suitcase full of money and no idea whether she is an agent, a criminal, or a victim

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Escaping a life of brutal childhood abuse, Mary Reilly takes a position in the employ of Dr. Jekyll, but the arrival of a new 'assistant' marks the beginning of a series of strange events, in a retelling of the classic horror story, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9781560540311 | Lrg sub edition (Thorndike Pr, October 1, 1990), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: From the diary of Mary Reilly, a Victorian maid in the employ of one Dr.
9780385249683 | Doubleday, January 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Escaping a life of brutal childhood abuse, Mary Reilly takes a position in the employ of Dr.

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9780375725999 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 2001), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Escaping a life of brutal childhood abuse, Mary Reilly takes a position in the employ of Dr.
9780671507022 | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, January 1, 1994), cover price $10.00

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9781559943666 | Harperaudio, June 1, 1995, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: From the diary of Mary Reilly, a Victorian maid in the employ of one Dr.

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A bestseller in 1933, and subsequently adapted into two beloved and controversial films, Imitation of Life has played a vital role in ongoing conversations about race, femininity, and the American Dream. Bea Pullman, a white single mother, and her African American maid, Delilah Johnston, also a single mother, rear their daughters together and become business partners. Combining Bea’s business savvy with Delilah’s irresistible southern recipes, they build an Aunt Jemima-like waffle business and an international restaurant empire. Yet their public success brings them little happiness. Bea is torn between her responsibilities as a businesswoman and those of a mother; Delilah is devastated when her light-skinned daughter, Peola, moves away to pass as white. Imitation of Life struck a chord in the 1930s, and it continues to resonate powerfully today.The author of numerous bestselling novels, a masterful short story writer, and an outspoken social activist, Fannie Hurst was a major celebrity in the first half of the twentieth century. Daniel Itzkovitz’s introduction situates Imitation of Life in its literary, biographical, and cultural contexts, addressing such topics as the debates over the novel and films, the role of Hurst’s one-time secretary and great friend Zora Neale Hurston in the novel’s development, and the response to the novel by Hurst’s friend Langston Hughes, whose one-act satire, “Limitations of Life” (which reverses the races of Bea and Delilah), played to a raucous Harlem crowd in the late 1930s. This edition brings a classic of popular American literature back into print.

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9780809590117 | Borgo Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: A bestseller in 1933, and subsequently adapted into two beloved and controversial films, Imitation of Life has played a vital role in ongoing conversations about race, femininity, and the American Dream.

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9780822333241 | Duke Univ Pr, October 1, 2004, cover price $23.95
9780060963651 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, February 1, 1990), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Two ambitious women, Bea Pullman and her Black maid, Delilah, become obsessed with material success, but learn that it can't insure happiness

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Product Description: Narrated by the family's chatterbox chambermaid, it is a rich, sinister, and funny novel of romance, sorcery, and aristocracy.

Hardcover:

9780525936084 | E P Dutton, May 1, 1993, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Berthe Duvet, chambermaid to a French duchess, narrates this tale of eighteenth-century Paris, describing the dazzling world of Marie Antoinette, Beaumarchais, and the Marquis de Sade, already living in the shadow of the guillotine

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9780452272262 | Reissue edition (Plume, July 1, 1994), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Narrated by the family's chatterbox chambermaid, it is a rich, sinister, and funny novel of romance, sorcery, and aristocracy.

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Paperback:

9780704301504 | Texas Bookman, March 1, 1996, cover price $3.98
9780811212557 | Reprint edition (New Directions, November 1, 1993), cover price $17.95

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9780309056229 | Transportation Research Board, November 1, 1993, cover price $20.00 | also contains The Housekeeper and the Professor

A young Black girl describes growing up as the housekeeper for a South Carolina brothel's formidable white madam in the 1930's

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9780312114053 | St Martins Pr, September 1, 1994, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A young Black girl describes growing up as the housekeeper for a South Carolina brothel's formidable white madam in the 1930s

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9780312135294 | Reprint edition (Griffin, October 1, 1995), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: A young Black girl describes growing up as the housekeeper for a South Carolina brothel's formidable white madam in the 1930's

AmTrica Gonzales sees an opportunity to start her life anew when a Westchester family offers her a job as a live-in nanny, but despite her comparatively luxurious lifestyle, she cannot forget a painful past of resentment, abuse, and abandonment. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9780060172794 | Harpercollins, May 1, 1996, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: America Gonzales sees an opportunity to start her life anew when a Westchester family offers her a job as a live-in nanny, but despite her comparatively luxurious lifestyle, she cannot forget a painful past of resentment, abuse, and abandonment

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9780060508845 | Reprint edition (Rayo, May 30, 2005), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: AmTrica Gonzales sees an opportunity to start her life anew when a Westchester family offers her a job as a live-in nanny, but despite her comparatively luxurious lifestyle, she cannot forget a painful past of resentment, abuse, and abandonment.
9780060928261 | Perennial, May 1, 1997, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: America Gonzales sees an opportunity to start her life anew when a Westchester family offers her a job as a live-in nanny, but despite her comparatively luxurious lifestyle, she cannot forget a painful past of resentment, abuse, and abandonment

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9780373333950 | Harlequin Books, February 1, 1997, cover price $3.50 | also contains Mrs. Jeffries Serves at Six

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Cassie Armitage marries Robert Montague, a fiery preacher who is the most eligible man in Ravenshill, only to discover that she has made a dangerous match, that ultimately leads to disaster and tragedy

Hardcover:

9780754011606 | Large print edition (Chivers North Amer, June 1, 1998), cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Cassie Armitage marries Robert Montague, a fiery preacher who is the most eligible man in Ravenshill, only to discover that she has made a dangerous match, that ultimately leads to disaster and tragedy
9780754021162 | Large print edition (Chivers North Amer, June 1, 1998), cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Cassie Armitage marries Robert Montague, a fiery preacher who is the most eligible man in Ravenshill, only to discover that she has made a dangerous match, that ultimately leads to disaster and tragedy
9780783801247 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, June 1, 1998), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Cassie Armitage marries Robert Montague, a fiery preacher who is the most eligible man in Ravenshill, only to discover that she has made a dangerous match, that ultimately leads to disaster and tragedy
9780312156985 | St Martins Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Cassie Armitage marries Robert Montague, a fiery preacher who is the most eligible man in Ravenshill, only to discover that she has made a dangerous match that ultimately leads to disaster and tragedy

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9780340666036 | New edition (Hodder & Stoughton, February 6, 1997), cover price $10.05 | About this edition: Trapped in a dangerous marriage and unwitting partner in financial fraud, Cassie finds her only ally in workhouse girl, Nancy Winfield.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780745187860 | Chivers Audio Books, July 1, 1997, cover price $110.95 | About this edition: The story of Cassie Armitage who is trapped in a dangerous marriage to a fiery Victorian preacher with an unsavoury secret.

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While working on the luxury estate of a Miami businessman, A. J. Sutton become involved in a torrid love affair with the gorgeous Marco Esteves, but a shocking murder compels A. J. to flee for her life and forces her to choose between her fears and love. Original.

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9780786004119 | Pinnacle Books, July 1, 1997, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: While working on the luxury estate of a Miami businessman, A.

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This historical novel brims with intrigue as young Master Peter de Vivian becomes so taken with the new housemaid, Gemma Penhallow, that he forgoes convention to be with her, but the older generation still has its ways of keeping them apart.

Hardcover:

9780312205577 | St Martins Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Young Master Peter de Vivian becomes so taken with the new housemaid, Gemma Penhallow, that he forgoes convention to be with her, but the older generation still has its ways of keeping them apart

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In a delightful new mystery set in turn-of-the-century South Bend, Indiana, Hilda Johansson, a young Swedish immigrant working for the Studebaker family, is drawn into a perilous murder investigation when she stumbles upon the body of a woman who had recently returned from missionary work in China.

Hardcover:

9780802733290 | Walker & Co, May 1, 1999, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In a mystery set in turn-of-the-century South Bend, Indiana, Hilda Johansson, a young Swedish immigrant working for the Studebaker family, is drawn into a perilous murder investigation when she stumbles upon the body of a woman who had recently returned from missionary work in China

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In a mystery set in turn-of-the-century South Bend, Indiana, Hilda Johansson, a young Swedish immigrant working for the Studebaker family, is drawn into a perilous murder investigation when she stumbles upon the body of a woman who had recently returned from missionary work in China.

Hardcover:

9781574902402 | Large print edition (Thomas t Beeler, April 1, 2000), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: In a mystery set in turn-of-the-century South Bend, Indiana, Hilda Johansson, a young Swedish immigrant working for the Studebaker family, is drawn into a perilous murder investigation when she stumbles upon the body of a woman who had recently returned from missionary work in China.

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