Fanny Hill - Softcover

Cleland, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0889023409 ISBN 13: 9780889023406

Publisher: Fitzhenry and Whiteside

Synopsis

For two centuries, Fanny Hill was an underground classic kept surreptitiously alive for generation in defiance of all the changing moralities of the centuries... Fanny's memoirs combine literary grace with a disarming enthusiasm for an activity which is, after all, only human.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

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 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.

From the Back Cover:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Fitzhenry and Whiteside
• ISBN 10: 0889023409
• ISBN 13: 9780889023406
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1