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Fanny Hill
ISBN
9780307824110
Genre
Algemeen
Verschenen
15-08-2012
Bindwijze
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Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Random House Publishing Group
Auteur(s)
John Cleland

Fanny Hill

or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

Reeks: Modern Library Classics

John Cleland
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  • 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
  • and
  • without
  • literary
  • merit,
  • even
  • earning
  • its
  • author
  • a
  • jail
  • sentence
  • for
  • obscenity.The
  • tale
  • of
  • a
  • naïve
  • young
  • prostitute
  • in
  • bawdy
  • eighteenth-century
  • London
  • who
  • slowly
  • rises
  • to
  • respectability,
  • the
  • novel–and
  • its
  • popularity–endured
  • many
  • bannings
  • and
  • critics,
  • and
  • today
  • Fanny
  • Hill
  • is
  • considered
  • an
  • important
  • piece
  • of
  • political
  • parody
  • and
  • sexual
  • philosophy
  • on
  • par
  • with
  • French
  • libertine
  • novels.This
  • uncensored
  • version
  • is
  • set
  • from
  • the
  • 1749
  • edition
  • and
  • includes
  • commentary
  • by
  • Charles
  • Rembar,
  • the
  • lawyer
  • who
  • defended
  • the
  • novel
  • in
  • the
  • 1966
  • U.S.
  • Supreme
  • Court
  • case,
  • and
  • newly
  • commissioned notes.
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