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INTEREST: Top Five Light Novels Ranked by Title Length

You know, this was cool when it was just García Márquez doing it

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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 nobleman master, Mr. B, makes unwanted advances towards her after the death of his mother, whose maid she was 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 upperclass society. The story, a best-seller of its time, was very widely read but criticised for its perceived licentiousness.

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Pamela was originally printed as the individual letters (chapters) in newspapers and pamphlets, not as a full novel. It's also a pretty damn disturbing first person account of not just Stockholm syndrome but the class system of the time. Oh, and the criticism as it was published wasn't that Pamela suffered sexual abuse and yet falls madly in love. It was that the book depicted sexual imagery at all, and a noble having sex with a commoner at that! (THE SHAME!)

ANN's next headline: 17th and 18th Century British Novels Become Surprisingly Popular Among Otaku Due To Extravagant Titling Practices of the Time. (It has a shorter title, but check out Cecilia.)


I Was a Middle School Novelist Who Stole My Crush's Name For My Pseudonym Causing Her To Jump Off A Roof, So I Was Depressed Until I Met a Book Eating Girl Who Forced Me To Join Her Club And Solve Mysteries Linked to Classic Literature.

There's also Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister

Which is also available on Kindle. I'm gonna be busy.

You know, on the forms I think some of these authors just mistakenly read "title" as "plot summary."

Not surprising since most light novels aren't worth the paper they're printed on. Fan fic material that's it.

Cptn_Taylor wrote:

Not surprising since most light novels aren't worth the paper they're printed on. Fan fic material that's it.

You know, I've always thought that the best analogue to light novels in America isn't fan fiction but rather pulp fiction. Short, published in long series, with several volumes a year from one author, often with titillating subject matter, not considered high art, most of them downright dreadful, but occasionally one comes along that's pretty brilliant, like The Guin Saga or Legend of the Galactic Heroes.