Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
by Cleland, John
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 1858131995
- ISBN 13
- 9781858131993
- Seller
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New Castle, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Parragon, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good/Good . 10x7x0. Small piece missing to rear panel of dustjacket. 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 naïve young prostitute in bawdy eighteenth-century London who slowly rises to respectability, the novelâand its popularityâendured 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.
Synopsis
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, popularly known as Fanny Hill, is a novel by John Cleland. Written in 1748 while the author was in debtor's prison in London, it is considered the first modern "erotic novel" in English, and has become a byword for the battle of censorship of erotica.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010021140
- Title
- Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
- Author
- Cleland, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1858131995
- ISBN 13
- 9781858131993
- Publisher
- Parragon
- Place of Publication
- [england]
- Date Published
- 1989
- Size
- 10x7x0
- X weight
- 21 oz
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