| Memoirs of Fanny Hill Contributor(s): Cleland, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1541362624 ISBN-13: 9781541362628 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $10.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2016 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Lexile Measure: 1610 |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6" W x 9" (0.78 lbs) 260 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Fanny Hill, also known as Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, has been a notorious novel since it first appeared in London in 1748-9. Banned for its "obscene" content, this fictional account of a young woman's unconventional route to middle-class respectability is, in fact, a lively and engaging comic romp through the boudoirs and brothels of Augustan England, with a heroine whose adventures and setbacks never lessen her humanity or her determination to find real love and happiness. Fanny's story offers modern readers sensuality and substance, as well as an unusually frank depiction of love and sex in the eighteenth centur |
