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Fanny Hill: Or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Penguin Classics) by John Cleland is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Fanny Hill: Or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Penguin Classics) about?

Forced by the death of her parents to seek her fortune in London, Fanny Hill is duped into prostitution by an old procuress. In Mrs Brown's bawdy-house the naive young woman begins her sexual initiation - progressing from innocence to curiosity and desire - and soon embarks on her own path in pursuit of pleasure, until she at last finds true love. John Cleland's story of Fanny's rise to respectability was denounced after its publication by the then Bishop of London as 'an open insult upon Religion and good manners', while James Boswell called it 'a most licentious and inflaming book'. But beside its highly entertaining and boisterous depictions of a startling variety of sexual acts, Fanny Hill stands as one of the great works of eighteenth-century fiction for its unique combination of parody, erotica and philosophy of sensuality.

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Author

John Cleland

Publisher

e-booksdirectory@com

Published

1985

Language

EN

ISBN

9781840224177

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Romance, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.33 / 5 (194 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14