With the 18th century, there are the beginning of the novel and its sub-genres like the epistolary novel (that is characterized by intensely dramatic letters) or the adventure novel (that tells the adventures of a young man that manages to survive, with his intelligence and courage). Robinson Crusoe, (Defoe’s first novel) is the most important example of adventure novel. The story is told by a first-person narrator, that gives an air of authenticity to the story told from a fixed point of view, and is a fake autobiography. The ability of Robinson to survive in the lost island represents the wit and the claim of reason and common sense of Augustan Age: these features become the based of human. Pamela or Virtue Rewarded, is an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson. Most of the letters are written by the heroine, Pamela (a young servant girl) to her parents. The book become very popular and soon is translated in many European languages. The letters tell the story of Pamela, a young servant that after her mistress’s death, decides to stay and works for Lady B’s son that will fall in love with her and, after many events, they will get married. So Pamela embodies perfectly one of the features of the 18th century: individualism! In fact, she belonged to the poorest class but after she will have the ability of changing her life and of became rich: this allowed her to get a social mobility. The novel also comments on, through Pamela, the sexual and social inequality of the position of women, which had a stronger condition. Both stories were written by a clear cut of realism, that reflects the features of English society of 18th century: materialism, pragmatism and the interest in real life. The main difference between the two novels is that