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Fanny Hill Or Memoirs Of A Woman Of Pleasure

Name: Fanny Hill Or Memoirs Of A Woman Of Pleasure
SKU: 9780140432497
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By (author) John Cleland, Edited by Peter Wagner

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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 and soon embarks on her own path in pursuit of pleasure, until she at last finds true love.

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ISBN: 9780140432497

Book Format: Paperback / softback

Pages: 240

Dimensions: 13 × 1.4 × 19.8 cm

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Format Paperback / softback | 240 pages
Dimensions 13 × 1.4 × 19.8 cm | 181
Publication Date 29 August 1985
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Publication City/Country United Kingdom

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Peter Wagner

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John Cleland was born in 1710, eldest son of William Cleland, an officer and friend of the Pope. For a while hoe worked for the East India Company, rising from soldiers to businessman to secretary of the Bombay Council, though he returned to London in 1741. He then became a literary hack and journalist and was imprisoned for debt on several occasions, and on one such occasion used the time to wr ite Fanny Hill. He died in Westminster in January 1789. Peter Wagner is a lecturer at the Catholic University of Eichstatt in Bavaria. His books in English include a study of Puritanism in colonial New England, and a survey of erotica in the age of Enlightenment.

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