Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Audiobook)

from la2bkk

Despite its age and obvious differences in style from modern works, I found this book quite interesting beyond the never ending descriptions of the main character's sexual encounters. True, the author relies heavily upon (to the modern reader) long winded descriptions of sex in much detail. Beyon...

from br77rino

The most amazing thing about this book was the depth of sexual detail given its time of writing. It's like a Penthouse letter from Charles Dickens.

from RajivC

I read about Fanny Hill many years ago, and was always curious about the book. Somehow, I never did manage to get my hand on a copy until one evening, when I had to wait for my daughter, and my IPad froze. I toodled off to a book store, and found this book. Now, the book is about the sexual life ...

from RussellBittner

"(T)here (is) no dress like an undress."This pithy bit of wit (on p. 110 of the 2001 Modern Library paperback edition, which I just read) is about as close to a maxim as John Cleland - in the mouth (or at least the thoughts) of Fanny Hill comes.Cleland writes in an appropriately corseted Victoria...

from AliceAnna

How extraordinary that a man thinks himself capable of writing an erotic novel from a woman's viewpoint. It's highly unlikely that Fanny considered her deflowering and professional life to be the mere larks that Cleland made them out to be. Pure fantasy and a man's fantasy at that.