by John Cleland · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140620887
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«Fanny Hill: Or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure» is the erotic novel by John Cleland, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (224 pages, in English).
Fanny narrates in the first person how, after arriving in London penniless, she is deceived and ends up working as a prostitute. Between brothels and lovers, the novel blends social satire with an Enlightenment reflection on desire and pleasure, and has become a classic of erotic fiction and of censored works.
The original title of the work is «Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure»; this 1994 edition belongs to the Penguin Popular Classics collection.
Recommended for readers interested in classic English narrative, literary eroticism and historically banned works.
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".
