β Scribed by Cleland, John
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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.
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"Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" has been widely banned and censored since its first publication in 1749, and was only made legal to sell in Great Britain and the United States in 1963. Despite this suppression, the novel has survived the test of time and brought notoriety to its author,
### Review "A rare achievement . . . a ray of sunshine in the gloomy world of lust." \--Erica Jong ### 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
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Por una vez al menos la literatura ha engendrado con Β«Fanny HillΒ» una obra en la que el libertinaje y la poesΓa se hallan tan unidos entre sΓ como alejados de la obscenidad y el mal gusto. Novela escΓ‘ndalo, el libro de John Cleland (1703-1789), publicado hace mΓ‘s de doscientos aΓ±os, sigue proclamand
Por una vez al menos la literatura ha engendrado con Fanny Hill una obra en la que el libertinaje y la poesΓa se hallan tan unidos entre sΓ como alejados de la obscenidad y el mal gusto. Novela escΓ‘ndalo, el libro de John Cleland (1703-1789), publicado hace mΓ‘s de doscientos aΓ±os, sigue proclamando
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