This volume ends with the writer's summary of which points each type of reader should have picked up from the main characters' trials and tribulations.
There is a second volume that I gather continues describing the new life Pamela finds in the course of this novel, but the introduction for this edition written in 1914 by George Saintsbury says: "He [Richardson] had better not have done it", so I think I'll leave well enough alone.
And to be honest, the first half of this first volume was much better than the second half.

The story starts out with a gripping plot, a fast pace, excellent writing. I flew through the pages, wanting more, more, more. These are the pages where all the drama is.
Some of the themes have a modern feel to their presentation.

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Sexual harassment dynamics haven't changed over the centuries, that's clear. Pamela faces the same 'choices' any modern woman faces when the head of the company decides he likes her pretty face and won't take no for an answer.
The difference between modern woman and Pamela is that modern woman can press charges at the local police office whereas Pamela can't.
Help from her colleagues then? Nope. Some don't believe her, some look the other way, some say he didn't mean to do so, and some are on his side.

Pamela next finds herself Mr. B's captive in his second house. She is guarded by an evil Mrs. Jewkes. Mr. B. waits patiently at his Bedfordshire estate till Pamela gives in to his wishes.
At this point I believed Mr. B. to be something of a psychopath.
And was sure his patience wouldn't last long, which indeed it doesn't. He decides to pay a visit to hasten Pamela's downfall.

But lo and behold, the beast seems to have emotions, and turns kind and decent all of a sudden.
And even though Pamela refuses the very generous 'mistress contract', he continues to be so.
Pamela even starts to like him, which did not surprise me since she was after all set up perfectly to start suffering Stockholm Syndrome, and she is overjoyed when the squire finally proposes marriage for real.

The explanation given for the squire's bad behavior is that he was set no limits as a child, he was spoiled and never learned to brook refusal. Power corrupts then, unless your name is Pamela and you have had Mr. and Mrs. Andrews as your parents, teaching you the power of goodness and virtue.
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The second half of the book is a beautiful study of goodness, virtue, remorse, redemption and how they may affect your day to day life. Also very nice, but not what a modern reader would expect as a nice climax to an exciting tale. ( )