JOHN CLELAND

Memoirs of a woman of pleasure editado por Oxford

Fanny Hill or memoirs of a woman pleasure editado por Penguin

This infamous novel details the many sexual adventures of the fictional maid-turned-prostitute, Fanny Hill, whose name has become synonymous with scandal and obscenity. Written while author John Cleland was in debtor's prison, The Memoirs of Fanny Hill is considered the first English example of a pornographic novel.The Memoirs of Fanny Hill was ...

So delicate is the pleasure, so superior to defending is the dignity of confessing one's follies, that the wonder is to see so few capable of it. Yet, what does such a confession cost, but the sacrifice of a paltry, miserable, false self-love, which is for ever misleading and betraying us? And of all its illusions there is not perhaps a more dan...