John Cleland
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Fanny Hill
- By: John Cleland
- Narrator: John Cleland
- Length: 8 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: December 16, 1999
- Language: English
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“My fond parents being both carried off by smallpox, it was put into my head of going to London.” But what should gentle Fanny do in that wicked city? What lay in wait to corrupt her innocence? All is revealed in this unbridled, lusty romp through 18th-century England.
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- By: John Cleland
- Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: December 27, 2010
- Language: English
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Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure is one of the most notorious texts in English literature. As recently as 1963, an unexpurgated edition was the subject of a trial, yet in the eighteenth century John Cleland’s open celebration of sexual enjoyment was a bestselling novel. Fanny’s story, as she falls into prostitution and then rises to respectability, takes the form of a confession that is vividly colored by copious and explicit physiological details of her carnal adventures. The moral outrage that this has always provoked has only recently been countered by serious critical appraisal.
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