Fanny Hill (Wordsworth Classics) - Softcover

Cleland, John

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9781853260575: Fanny Hill (Wordsworth Classics)

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ISBN 10: 1853260576 ISBN 13: 9781853260575

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1993

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'The Memoires of a Woman of Pleasure' often known as 'Fanny Hill' is one of the most celebrated erotic fictional works of all time. The reader will not find anything coarse or vulgar in the book, for it is a work of great charm and literary merit, and is essential reading for all who desire to aquire a knowledge of erotic fiction.

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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 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.

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