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Title: Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Penguin Classics) by John Cleland, Peter Wagner ISBN: 0-14-043249-3 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: January, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: An innocently erotic and exciting book.
Comment: I was astonished when I read the book. It is really erotic and therefore a real book of this century. And it is filled with all the ingredients you need to have a successful book; drama, despair, love and sex. You can compare it with novels written today, and it will still stand out as somewhat extraordinary. What can I say, except for: read it! The book will make your heart beat faster and your body become warmer. It will keep you warm through the whole winter!
Rating: 4
Summary: Fanny Hill
Comment: I have just finished reading Fanny Hill, and I was really surprised at just how explicit the novel was! I was expecting a story that made much of a few kisses behind the pantry door or a bared ankle or two, but I was certainly wrong about that.
Cleland manages to write a steamy story without ever being crass or resorting to using filthy language to get a reaction. It's hard to belive that it was published in 1749. Everything about the people in the novel seems so modern and no one ever thinks that the people of Cleland's time even had thoughts or lives like he describes.
Yet this novel has it's problems too.
The plot is an old one, young innocent country girl goes to the big city to seek her fortune and falls in the hands of some disreputable people. It's a story that's as old as the profession the book is about. At one point in the novel I wondered if maybe the people who wrote the script for Pretty Woman had been reading Fanny Hill for plot ideas.
Cleland starts a very nice love story for our heroine, but then it fades out for most of the novel and returns without warning or explanation at the end. In fact, the end of the novel seemed rushed in this readers opinion, and rendered the whole story a bit silly. Not to mention a couple of holes in the plot that are big enough to drive a Mack truck through.
Overall, it's a good book, and should be read if for no other reason than to see for yourself just how erotic it really is. No matter what expectations you have when you pick the book up, it will surprise you, and probably pleasantly so.
Rating: 4
Summary: It's all about sex...
Comment: ...Even if it seems like it isn't, it really is. Let's face it, the critics and scholars have tried to dignify the reading and "study" of this text to make the dirty pleasure more dignified. THis is almost like the guys who claim to only look at Playboy for the articles, and not the articles of clothing. It's amusing when professors assign this book, usually the new young male ones.;)
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Title: Erotic Tales of the Victorian Age by Bram Stoker, Emile Zola, Walter Charles Devereaux ISBN: 1573922056 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: The Pearl by Anonymous ISBN: 0345410041 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 29 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence ISBN: 0553212621 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 November, 1983 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: My Secret Life: An Erotic Diary of Victorian London by James R. Kincaid, James Jennings ISBN: 0451526023 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Story of O by Pauline Reage ISBN: 0345301110 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 May, 1981 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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