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Fanny Hill by John Cleland
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Forbidden Classics
'Fanny Hill' scandalised thousands of Victorians with its vivid descriptions of sexual pleasure, and landed its author in court a year after publication on charges of 'corrupting the King's subjects'. This only heightened its allure -- and today it is still hugely appreciated as a work of true erotic an ...Show more
Fanny Hill by John Cleland
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classic Erotica Ser.
"He was the universe to me, and all that was not him, was nothing to me." ― John Cleland
Fanny Hill: Or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, better known as Fanny Hill, is one of the most notorious texts in English literature. As recently as 1963 an unexpurgated edition was the subject of a trial, yet in the eighteenth century John Cleland's open celebration of sexual enjoyment was a best selling novel. Fanny ...Show more
Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Lady of Pleasure by John Cleland
Category: Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
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 and soon embarks on her own path in pursuit of pleasure, until she at last finds true love.
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland; Richard Terry (Editor); Helen Williams (Editor)
Category: Fiction
John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure has been described as the first erotic novel in English and is perhaps the greatest example of the genre. From the outset it was mired in disrepute. Cleland penned the novel to liberate himself from debtors' prison, and the book's manifestly lewd content led ...Show more
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