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John cleland 1709 1789 was an english novelist, most famousand infamousas the author of the erotic novel fanny hill. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. For todays listener, the work holds as much fascination as when it was first published, not only as the foremost example. Fanny hill, by john cleland top 10 racy novels time. Fanny hill ebook by john cleland 9780307824110 rakuten. It was written whilst cleland was in debtors prison and was to become one of the most prosecuted and banned books in history. His voice is rather like an oldtime hardcore 50s detective. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit. Memoirs of a woman of pleasure, popularly known as fanny hill, is a novel by john cleland. The book is written as a series of letters from frances fanny hill to an unknown woman, with fanny justifying her lifechoices to this individual.
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His classic bestseller, think and grow rich now stands as arguably the greastest book. Memoirs of a woman of pleasure 1749 was the first widelyread english novel in the genre erotica. It was written by john cleland as he was serving hard time at a debtors prison in london. Fanny hill by john cleland, first edition abebooks. John cleland 1709 1789 this book has been notorious since it first appeared and had been banned several times and in several. Condemned in its own time on grounds of indecency, the book was the subject of several law suits until as recently as the 1960s. It was written whilst cleland was in debtors prison and was to become one of the.
An employee of the british east india company, cleland spent. Fanny hopes to find work as a maid, and is hired by mrs. Fanny hill, one of the most popular novels of the 18th century, traces the rise of its heroine from prostitution to middleclass respectability. Memoirs of a woman of pleasurepopularly known as fanny hill possibly an anglicisation of the latin mons veneris, mound of venus is an erotic novel by english novelist john cleland first published in. Fanny hill expanded edition cd autographed copies are now sold out but the regular version is still available. Browns associate, phoebe ayers, shares a bed with fanny and.
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