books.google.co.uk - Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740) is often regarded as the first true novel in English and a landmark in literary history. As the best selling novel of its time, it provoked a swarm of responses: panegyrics and critiques, parodies and burlesques, piracies and sequels, comedies and operas. The controversy...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Pamela_in_the_Marketplace.html?id=4Ait9MeAg8UC&utm_source=gb-gplus-share'Pamela' in the Marketplace