04-17-2004, 03:37 PM
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Most Famous Erotic Novel
Has anyone read this?
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Henry Cleland's "Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" was first published in London in 1749. The author sold it for twenty guineas to a bookseller, who is said to have made £10,000 from it. The book was quickly translated into several European langu***s. The style of the book is simple and artless, and "obscene" words are avoided by means of circumlocution and euphemism. The theme is straightforward to the point of cliche: a young innocent **** journeys to the big city and finds herself in a brothel, whereupon she quickly falls in love with one of the clients. The book ends with a happy marri***. "Fanny Hill" has been represented as the first truly erotic novel, and as providing useful insights into brothel-life in eigh****th-century London. Like all similar famous books of the genre, it has been prosecuted and praised.
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