Fanny Hill
by John Cleland
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Fanny Hill Summary
| THE LONG-BANNED CLASSIC! Banned in the United States until 1966, Fanny Hill was so sensational an scorching that the book earned its author a jail sentence but is now a recognized classic, filled with political satire and sharply sexual philosophy. Fanny Hill, its long-suffering heroine is a na?ve young prostitute in bawdy eighteenth-century London. Raised on a farm, Fanny moves to London when she is 15 and her parents die. Taken in by a Mrs. Brown who runs a brothel and she meets a young client there called Charles who she falls in love with and becomes his kept woman. They live together happily, but then Charles mysteriously disappears and Fanny is told he has abandoned her and gone abroad. She goes to live at another brothel, and later becomes the kept woman of an older man who dies and leaves her his fortune. The books shocking narrative of a country orphan's initiation into the world of prostitution offers an uninhibited portrait of the sexual awakening of a young girl. "Classic of a whore's progress and amorous activities." Michael Perkins in The Secret Record |
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Fanny envoie ? une myst?rieuse amie deux longues lettres dans lesquelles elle s'excuse de d?crire "le tourbillon des plaisirs" qu'elle ?prouve dans tous leurs d?tails les plus scabreux, depuis les premi?res exp?riences lesbiennes jusqu'? la vente de son pucelage en passant par le grand amour, les amours moins grandes et les "parties" le long de la Tamise. La premi?re lettre de Fanny nous a initi?s ? l'histoire de ses aventures galantes, apr?s un premier amour tourn? court. C'est "seule, dans cette grande ville, pour m'y noyer ou surnager" -confie-t-elle dans sa seconde lettre- qu'elle aborde la derni?re partie de son aventure. Seule? en r?alit? trois jeunes beaut?s partagent sa nouvelle vie et les agr?ments d'un libertinage savant, le grand amour ne reviendra que plus tard, et uniquement pour l'heureuse Fanny. En effet, l'histoire de Fanny Hill se termine bien, elle retrouve son premier amour, le jeune Charles qui l'?pouse et ils vont go?ter, tous deux, les d?lices de l'amour conjugal. Ecrit par John Cleland vers 1745 lors de son incarc?ration pour dettes, Fanny Hill est sans doute le roman ?rotique anglais le plus c?l?bre du monde. Enfer de la Biblioth?que nationale de France, cote 104, pour la pr?sente ?dition. Augment? de 8 illustrations en sanguine. Collection L'enfer de la Biblioth?que nationale de France. |
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| This infamous story of a prostitute's rise to respectability holds a place in the history of the English novel alongside the works of Richardson, Fielding, and Smollett. |
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| This masterpiece has enjoyed unwavering popularity despite being banned and criticised through the centuries. Regarded as the first erotic novel in English, it chronicles the life of a young woman from her loss of innocence to her journey into the world of physical corruption. He delves beneath both the apparently moral and the sordid to present a bitingly true picture of the real world. |
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