Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a woman of pleasure - Hardcover

Cleland, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0283998741 ISBN 13: 9780283998744

Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1989

Synopsis

Fanny is a charming and good-humoured heroine, and the story of her rise through harlotry to riches and respectability is told with vigour and wit. Its cast of rakes, whores and bawds people a London familiar from the engravings of Hogarth.

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: Sidgwick & Jackson
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0283998741
• ISBN 13: 9780283998744
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 191