|
Loading... Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasureby John Cleland
LibraryThing recommendationsMember recommendationsLoading...
won't like
will probably not like
will probably like
will like
will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  tedmahsun | Feb 5, 2007 |  Scandalous at the time, certainly, and interesting for that reason. But I just couldn't finish it, so repetitive it was. It became tedious after just a few pages. Worth reading those few pages though. (  ) farflungfish | Dec 16, 2006 | The story of a woman and generally speaking quite a bit of detail on her adventures of the amorous sort, as well as the rest of her life. The shagging is, of course, a focus, and was supposed to be scandalous when it was actually written. This is amusing and entertaining enough, but pretty tame for now, really. http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0608... (  ) bluetyson | Dec 8, 2006 | ermm... welll... if you don't like sex this isn't the book for you. I actually got bored by Cleland's endless descriptions of sex, prosaic though they were. This is a sparse story of a woman who falls on hard times, makes the most of it and then falls into easy times in the end. On the way, Cleland conjures up all the occasions he needs to describe every conceivable way of having sex. Sometimes this is just too contrived such as when fellow prostitutes of Fanny get together to share their experiences of losing their virginity. This is an excuse for about 10 pages of discursive sex. Pretty tedious actually. But, a remarkable book for its time nonetheless. arukiyomi | Sep 19, 2006 | A racy novel about a woman's life experiences and pleasures in the 18th century. The story behind the novel is quite interesting, in that the book has been banned and the author not only went to jail for writing it but disassociated himself from the book as well. ( ) digitalmaven | Aug 15, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0140432493, Paperback)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 - progressing from innocence to curiosity and desire - and soon embarks on her own path in pursuit of pleasure, until she at last finds true love. John Cleland's story of Fanny's rise to respectability was denounced after its publication by the then Bishop of London as 'an open insult upon Religion and good manners', while James Boswell called it 'a most licentious and inflaming book'. But beside its highly entertaining and boisterous depictions of a startling variety of sexual acts, Fanny Hill stands as one of the great works of eighteenth-century fiction for its unique combination of parody, erotica and philosophy of sensuality.(retrieved from Amazon Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:30:54 -0500) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wikipedia in English (2)
Edit:
Somebody took offence with my throwaway remark about this using Victorian English. (It's really Georgian.) My bad! Wish the commenter could have been nicer about it though!) (