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Fanny Hill justifies her choices through life as a "woman of pleasure" through a series of letters to an unknown woman in John Cleland's notorious classic, often considered to be the first erotic English-language novel.

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Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure is one of the most notorious texts in English literature. As recently as 1963, an unexpurgated edition was the subject of a trial, yet in the eighteenth century John Cleland's open celebration of sexual enjoyment was a bestselling novel. Fanny's story, as she falls into prostitution and then rises to respectability, takes the form of a confession that is vividly colored by copious and explicit physiological details of her carnal adventures. The moral outrage that this has always provoked has only recently been countered by serious critical appraisal.

Fanny Hill

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

Author John Cleland

Narrated by Justine Eyre

Publication date Dec 27, 2010

Running time 8 hrs

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