‘Fanny Hill’ scandalised thousands of Victorians with its vivid descriptions of sexual pleasure, and landed its author in court a year after publication on charges of ‘corrupting the King's subjects’. This only heightened its allure – and today it is still hugely appreciated as a work of true erotic and literary merit.What’s a penniless country girl to do in the big city?Fanny Hill is a blushing country maiden until tragic circumstances force her to seek a new life in London. She is taken in by the motherly Mrs Brown, but on her first night she receives a rather unorthodox welcome from one of the young ladies in the house – and swiftly gains a much more explicit idea of what is expected in her new role. Fanny takes to carnal pleasures with gusto, and she vividly recalls each lusty encounter, every thrusting conquest, in her saucy, voyeuristic and thoroughly irresistible memoirs.

Fanny Hill (Harper Perennial Forbidden Classics)

Literature & Fiction

CLELAND, JOHN

Genre Fiction

Harper-perennial

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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Fanny Hill: Or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Penguin Classics)

British & Irish

Penguin Classics

"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.

Fanny Hill (Penguin Popular Classics)

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Peter Sabor presents both the first critical edition and the first accurate, wholly unexpurgated text of the most famous erotic novel in English, better known as Fanny Hill.

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (The ^AWorld's Classics)

Oxford University Press

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Oxford World's Classics)

Contemporary

Between 1973 and 1984, sixty-one countries participated in a ground-breaking survey of human fertility organized by the World Fertility Survey (WFS). By interviewing thousands of women between the ages of 15 and 49, the WFS made available for the first time a survey of this size and scope. This volume follows the cycle of the monumental project--from the design and execution of the survey through the analyses and dissemination of results to the implications for future approaches and government policies.

The World Fertility Survey: An Assessment

Politics & Social Sciences

Scott, Chris

Social Sciences

Peter Sabor presents both the first critical edition and the first accurate, wholly unexpurgated text of the most famous erotic novel in English, better known as Fanny Hill. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Literary

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.

Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a woman of pleasure

SIDGWICK JACKSON

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.

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

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Modern Library

She was a homeless orphan of 15, resolved to make her fortune in London.  Abandoned by her chaperone, destitute and friendless, the inexperienced country maid was taken in by Madam Brown.  And thus began, as she has told us, "...the loose part of my life, wrote with the same liberty that I led it."

Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

Dell Pub. Co.]

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Fanny Hill (Harper Perennial Forbidden Classics)

Fanny Hill: Or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Penguin Classics)

Fanny Hill (Penguin Popular Classics)

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (The ^AWorld's Classics)

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Oxford World's Classics)

The World Fertility Survey: An Assessment

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Oxford World's Classics)

Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a woman of pleasure

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

Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure