- Fiction, Prostitutes, English Erotic stories, Sexuality
Memoirs of Fanny Hill was written in debtor's prison in 1784 and was the first modern erotic novel in English. A young woman, Fanny Hill, is forced by poverty to go into service, but is tricked into becoming a prostitute instead. She is then saved by her love, only to have his jealous father send him from the country some months later. She moves from one lover to the next, gaining maturity with each encounter, and nearing her...happy ending.
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Classical in form, unpretentious, grave and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- John Cleland
- First published
- 1749
- Pages
- 221
- Publisher
- ReadHowYouWant.com, HarperCollins Publishers, New American Library
- Editions
- 283
- Language
- Italian, German, French, Russian
- ISBN
- 9798694730785
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