by John Cleland · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789898657121
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«Fanny Hill» is the erotic novel by John Cleland, published by Verso da História in paperback (256 pages, in Portuguese).
Fanny, orphaned at fifteen, arrives in London from her village and, deceived, ends up in a brothel. After several adventures she meets Charles, a young nobleman with whom she lives a passionate romance, but his sudden disappearance leaves her pregnant and to her own devices. An eighteenth-century erotic classic, narrated with refined style and delicacy in the most sordid situations.
Portuguese translation by Artur de Oliveira Carvalho. Work originally published in 1748 under the title «Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure».
For readers of classic erotic fiction and eighteenth-century literature; a work famous for the censorship it suffered in its time.
John Cleland was an English novelist best known for his fictional Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, whose eroticism led to his arrest. James Boswell called him "a sly, old malcontent".
