Fanny Hill (Harper Perennial Forbidden Classics)

by John Cleland

2020-11-23 07:54:31

''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 ... Read more
''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 and literary merit.What''s a penniless country girl to do in the big city?Fanny Hill is a blushing country maiden until tragic circumstances force her to seek a new life in London. She is taken in by the motherly Mrs Brown, but on her first night she receives a rather unorthodox welcome from one of the young ladies in the house - and swiftly gains a much more explicit idea of what is expected in her new role. Fanny takes to carnal pleasures with gusto, and she vividly recalls each lusty encounter, every thrusting conquest, in her saucy, voyeuristic and thoroughly irresistible memoirs. Less

Book Details

File size7.01 X 4.37 X 0 in
Print pages288
PublisherHARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
Publication date January 19, 2009
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780007300419
John Cleland (1709 – 1789) was an English novelist, most famous—and infamous—as the author of the erotic novel Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. He was born in Kingston upon...

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