Migliori Libri di Pamela Hartigan

George Bernard Shaw una volta disse: “Le persone ragionevoli adattano se stesse al mondo; quelle irragionevoli persistono nel voler adattare il mondo a se stesse. Dunque tutti i progressi dipendono dalle persone irragionevoli”. Lo ha dimostrato il Premio Nobel Muhammad Yunus con il microcredito della sua Grameen Bank. Lo dimostra ancor più questo libro, che presenta una grande quantità di imprenditori “dissennati” che hanno dato vita a imprese capaci di soddisfare bisogni sociali e ambientali di varia natura e, al tempo stesso, solide e redditizie. Sono proprio questi imprenditori irragionevoli a essere il perno del nostro futuro. Oggi di devono infatti fronteggiare sfide epocali – dalle guerre al terrorismo, dalla povertà ai cambiamenti climatici alle minacce di epidemie globali – e sarà possibile farlo solo ristrutturando il business e i mercati. Leggendo come questi pionieri apparentemente irragionevoli hanno costruito le loro imprese – che soddisfano bisogni sociali ma, al tempo stesso, sono solide e redditizie – ogni imprenditore e manager potrà trarre interessanti e importanti consigli per partecipare alla rivoluzione sociale e far prosperare la propria organizzazione nel nuovo panorama economico che si sta delineando.

Samuel Richardson’s Pamela is a captivating story of one young woman’s rebellion against the social order, edited by Peter Sabor with an introduction by Margaret A. Doody in Penguin Classics. Fifteen-year-old Pamela Andrews, alone in the world, is pursued by her dead mistress’s son. Although she is attracted to Mr B, she holds out against his demands and threats of abduction and rape, determined to protect her virginity and abide by her moral standards. Psychologically acute in its explorations of sex, freedom and power, Richardson’s first novel caused a sensation when it was published, with its depiction of a servant heroine who dares to assert herself. Richly comic and full of lively scenes and descriptions, Pamela contains a diverse cast of characters ranging from the vulgar and malevolent Mrs Jewkes to the aggressive but awkward country squire who serves this unusual love story as both its villain and hero. In her introduction, Margaret Ann Doody discusses the epistolary genre of novels and examines the role of women and class differences. This edition, based on the 1801 text and incorporating corrections made in 1810, makes Richardson’s final version of the two-volume generally available for the first time. Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) was born in Derbyshire, the son of a joiner. He received little formal education, but in 1706 was apprenticed to a London printer, going on to become a leading figure of the trade in the capital. Pamela originated as a volume of model letters for unskilled letter-writers, but as Richardson became more fascinated by the characters in his letters than the letters themselves, the germ of a novel began to emerge. Upon its publication in 1740 Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded became a national sensation. If you enjoyed Pamela, you might like Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders, also available in Penguin Classics.