Fanny Hill (Wordsworth Classics) - Softcover

John Cleland

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9781853260575: Fanny Hill (Wordsworth Classics)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853260576 ISBN 13: 9781853260575

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions, 1993

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The Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure more often known as Fanny Hill, is one of the most celebrated erotic fictional works of all time. Banned and heavily edited at various times in many countries since its 1st publication in 1748/9, this book is presented in this edition in its unexpurgated form.

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Fanny Hill, shrouded in controversy for most of its more than 250-year life, and banned from publication in the United States until 1966, was once considered immoral and without literary merit, even earning its author a jail sentence for obscenity.
The tale of a naive young prostitute in bawdy eighteenth-century London who slowly rises to respectability, the novel-and its popularity-endured many bannings and critics, and today Fanny Hill is considered an important piece of political parody and sexual philosophy on par with French libertine novels.
This uncensored version is set from the 1749 edition and includes commentary by Charles Rembar, the lawyer who defended the novel in the 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case, and newly commissioned notes.

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"A rare achievement . . . a ray of sunshine in the gloomy world of lust."
--Erica Jong

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