Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
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- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
28 August 1985
Summary
The Sensual Memoirs of Fanny Hill
Forced by the death of her parents to seek her fortune in London, Fanny Hill is duped into prostitution by an old procuress. In Mrs Brown’s bawdy-house the naive young woman begins her sexual initiation - progressing from innocence to curiosity and desire - and soon embarks on her own path in pursuit of pleasure, until she at last finds true love.
John Cleland’s story of Fanny’s rise to respectability was denounced after its publication by t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140432497 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140432493 |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | John Cleland, Peter Wagner |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 28 August 1985 |
| Weight: | 181g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 14mm |
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“A rare achievement … a ray of sunshine in the gloomy world of lust.” –Erica Jong
“A rare achievement … a ray of sunshine in the gloomy world of lust.”–Erica Jong
About The Author
John Cleland
John Cleland was born in 1710, eldest son of William Cleland, an officer and friend of the Pope. For a while he worked for the East India Company, rising from soldier to businessman to secretary of the Bombay Council, though he returned to London in 1741. He then became a literary hack and journalist and was imprisoned for debt on several occasions, and on one such occasion used the time to write Fanny Hill. He died in Westminster in January 1789.
Peter Wagner is a lecturer at the Catholic University of Eichstatt in Bavaria. His books in English include a study of Puritanism in colonial New England, and a survey of erotica in the age of Enlightenment.
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