Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure - Softcover

Cleland, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1420938746 ISBN 13: 9781420938746

Publisher: Digireads.com, 2010

Synopsis

"Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" has been widely banned and censored since its first publication in 1749, and was only made legal to sell in Great Britain and the United States in 1963. Despite this suppression, the novel has survived the test of time and brought notoriety to its author, John Cleland, because of his lush and witty prose style. The story of Fanny Hill, an orphaned teenage girl who takes to prostitution in order to survive, relies not on vulgarity or obscene vernacular, but on clever innuendoes, metaphors, and similes to deliver the erotic details. Fanny Hill's rise to fortune and happiness is due entirely to her sexual prowess - a satiric attack on the morality of eighteenth century society, when aristocratic women sought husbands for financial advancement. This novel will entertain and intrigue readers today, transporting them into a world where love is currency, and pleasure is profit.

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Review:

"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 was born in 1710, eldest son of William Cleland, an officer and friend of the Pope. For a while hoe worked for the East India Company, rising from soldiers 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Digireads.com
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1420938746
• ISBN 13: 9781420938746
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 124