Memoirs of Fanny Hill
Author : John Cleland
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Page : 318 pages
File Size : 32,43 MB
Release : 1888
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Author : John Cleland
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Page : 318 pages
File Size : 32,43 MB
Release : 1888
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Author : John Cleland
Publisher : Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
Page : 1092 pages
File Size : 35,45 MB
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
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CSF Publishing's Classic Erotica Collection includes title's carefully updated and corrected from the original text, and features new enhancements such as the author's biography and bibliography, and illustrations. ABOUT THE BOOK: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, or Fanny Hill is an erotic novel by John Cleland first published in England in 1748. Written while the author was in debtor's prison in London, it is considered "the first original English prose pornography, and the first pornography to use the form of the novel." One of the most prosecuted and banned books in history, it has become a synonym for obscenity. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: John Cleland (baptised 24 September 1709 - 23 January 1789) was an English novelist most famous and infamous as the author of Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, or Fanny Hill.
Author : John Cleland
Publisher : Signet Book
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,41 MB
Release : 1965-10
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ISBN : 9780451078674
John Cleland's sexy classic -- available now after centuries under ban. Delightful, steamy, and enduring. (Jacketless library hardcover.)
Author : John Cleland
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Page : 221 pages
File Size : 26,2 MB
Release : 1994
Category : London (England)
ISBN : 9780140620887
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, commonly known as Fanny Hill, has been shrouded in mystery and controversy since John Cleland completed it in 1749. The Bishop of London called the work 'an open insult upon Religion and good manners' and James Boswell referred to it as 'a most licentious and inflaming book'. The story of a prostitute's rise to respectability, it has been recognized more recently as a unique combination of parody, sensual entertainment and a philosophical concept of sexuality borrowed from French libertine novels. Modern readers will appreciate it not only as an important contribution to revolutionary thought in the Age of Enlightenment, but also as a thoroughly entertaining and important work of erotic fiction, deserving of a place in the history of the English novel beside Richardson, Fielding and Smollett.
Author : John Cleland
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Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,39 MB
Release : 1993-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780788158711
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, first published in 1749 and known popularly as Fanny Hill, was one of the most famous novels of the eighteenth century and has been in print ever since. Though not the first erotic novel, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure has survived as both an illustrative social document and a keenly insightful look into the nature of sexuality.
Author : In Charge of the Dynamic Data Base John Cleland
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,3 MB
Release : 2014-11-05
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ISBN : 9781503112032
Memoirs of Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure is an erotic novel by English novelist John Cleland first published in London in 1748. Written while the author was in debtors' prison in London, it is considered "the first original English prose pornography, and the first pornography to use the form of the novel". One of the most prosecuted and banned books in history, it has become a synonym for obscenity.
Author : John John Cleland
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,53 MB
Release : 2017-01-22
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ISBN : 9781542696319
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, popularly known as Fanny Hill, is a novel by John Cleland. Written in 1748 while Cleland 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.
Author : John Cleland
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,17 MB
Release : 2016-08-02
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ISBN : 9781535558778
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 a lively and engaging tale of a heroine who falls into prostitution, passes through the boudoirs and brothels of England, and eventually rises to respectability. Fanny Hill's story offers modern readers sensuality and substance, as well as an unusually frank depiction of love and sex in the eighteenth century.
Author : Hal Gladfelder
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 26,29 MB
Release : 2012-04-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1421404907
John Cleland is among the most scandalous figures in British literary history, both celebrated and attacked as a pioneer of pornographic writing in English. His first novel, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, or Fanny Hill, is one of the enduring literary creations of the eighteenth century, despite over two hundred years of legal prohibition. Yet the full range of his work is still too little known. In this study, Hal Gladfelder combines groundbreaking archival research into Cleland’s tumultuous life with incisive readings of his sometimes extravagant, sometimes perverse body of work, positioning him as a central figure in the development of the novel and in the construction of modern notions of authorial and sexual identity in eighteenth-century England. Rather than a traditional biography, Fanny Hill in Bombay presents a case history of a renegade authorial persona, based on published works, letters, private notes, and newly discovered legal testimony. It retraces Cleland’s career from his years as a young colonial striver with the East India Company in Bombay through periods of imprisonment for debt and of estrangement from collaborators and family, shedding light on his paradoxical status as literary insider and social outcast. As novelist, critic, journalist, and translator, Cleland engaged with the most challenging intellectual currents of his era yet at the same time was vilified as a pornographer, atheist, and sodomite. Reconnecting Cleland’s writing to its literary and social milieu, this study offers new insights into the history of authorship and the literary marketplace and contributes to contemporary debates on pornography, censorship, the history of sexuality, and the contested role of literature in eighteenth-century culture.
Author : John Cleland
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Page : 290 pages
File Size : 17,1 MB
Release : 2021-03-07
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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure-popularly known as Fanny Hill -is an erotic novel by English novelist John Cleland first published in London in 1748