{"product_id":"fanny-hill","title":"Fanny Hill","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eFanny Hill\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJohn Cleland\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781961884731\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eSmith \u0026amp; Taylor Classics\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2026\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e272\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs part of the \u003cb\u003eSmith \u0026amp; Taylor Classics\u003c\/b\u003e collection, this edition preserves \u003ci\u003eFanny Hill\u003c\/i\u003e in its \u003cb\u003efull provocative force, complete with new critical commentary. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBanned from publication in the United States until 1966 for its assumed obscenity, immorality, and lack of literary merit, \u003ci\u003eFanny Hill\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eMemoirs of a Woman of Pleasure\u003c\/i\u003e (1749), is a novel considered to be the first original English prose erotica. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the tale of the titular \u003ci\u003eFanny Hill\u003c\/i\u003e, told to us in her own letters with \"stark naked truth.\" Young, orphaned, and naïve, she recounts her early days of prostitution in bawdy eighteenth-century London and her dramatic rise to respectability. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn important work of political, social, and sexual parody and philosophy, the author himself was imprisoned at the time of publication for his depictions of sexual \"deviance\" as an act of pleasure rather than simply shameful. \u003ci\u003eFanny Hill\u003c\/i\u003e deserves its place in continued publication not only for its role in securing rights for erotica, but for its surprisingly modern, explicit, and complicated depictions of sex, love-making, money-talk, and homosexuality. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis uncensored version is set from the 1749 edition and includes a new introduction by Chelsea G. Summers, as well as a conversational afterword between Summers and Jessica Stoya. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeaturing a conversational afterword from writers Chelsea G. Summers and Jessica Stoya. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCelebrate Banned Book Day at libraries across the United States August 4th! \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Smith \u0026 Taylor Classics","offers":[{"title":"Fanny Hill | John Cleland | Paperback | 9781961884731 | New | Fiction 1712753","offer_id":48166373294232,"sku":"1712753","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81vk6FqAKNL.jpg?v=1771928714","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/fanny-hill","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}