Fanny Hill: or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Modern Library Classics) - Softcover

Cleland, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375758089 ISBN 13: 9780375758089

Publisher: Modern Library, 2001

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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

About the Author:

Gary Gautier is a professor at the University of Colorado and the author of the book Landed Patriarchy in Fielding’s Novels: Fictional Landscapes, Fictional Genders.

About this edition

• Publisher: Modern Library
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375758089
• ISBN 13: 9780375758089
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288