Author: John Cleland Daniel DefoePublisher:
ISBN: 9781532925139
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Memoirs Of Fanny Hill & Moll FlandersBy John Cleland & Daniel Defoe
Memoirs of Fanny Hill and Moll Flanders
Author: John Cleland Daniel DefoePublisher:
ISBN: 9781532925139
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Memoirs Of Fanny Hill & Moll FlandersBy John Cleland & Daniel Defoe
Fanny
Author: Erica JongPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393324358
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
"Jong . . . filled a gap in the great tradition of the picaresque novel. . . . Linguistically, "Fanny" is a tower of strength. . . . Jong has gone farther than Joyce."--Anthony Burgess, "Saturday Review."
The Small House at Allington
Author: Anthony TrollopePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Barsetshire (England : Imaginary place)
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Fanny Hill
Author: John ClelandPublisher:
ISBN: 9781448607273
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
John Cleland is said to have "misapplied considerable talents" in writing his scandalous 1749 novel, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, or; Fanny Hill. Nevertheless, the book has near-constantly remained in print, even where declared criminal, till finally being recognized as a classic of 18th century literature. It's known to have sold for as much as $40 for a new printing in 1863 -- several hundred dollars in today's money.Fanny Hill, age 15, is orphaned by a smallpox outbreak and forced to fend for herself. She narrowly escapes selling her virginity in a brothel after being tricked into taking a job there, and soon loses her beloved to the machinations of his wicked father. What, then, is left for Fanny to do?The text of this edition is copied from a famous French printing, and illustrated with several charming black-and-white illustrations.
Fanny Hill (Harper Perennial Forbidden Classics)
Author: John ClelandPublisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007372051
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
‘Fanny Hill’ scandalised thousands of Victorians with its vivid descriptions of sexual pleasure, and landed its author in court a year after publication on charges of ‘corrupting the King's subjects’. This only heightened its allure – and today it is still hugely appreciated as a work of true erotic and literary merit.
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews
Author: Henry FieldingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
A burlesque of Richardson's "Pamela", which was generally ascribed to Fielding at the time of its appearance and held by most authorities to be by him.--Cf. W.L. Cross' "The history of Henry Fielding", v. 1, p. 23, 303-308: Notes & queries, 12th ser. v. 1, p. 24-26.
Stories from Shakespeare
Author: Geraldine McCaughreanPublisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN: 9780435125035
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Prepare to meet with witches, ghosts, mad kings and murderers in these retellings of ten of the best-known Shakespeare plays. The moving and tragic events of Romeo and Juliet; the chilling and bloody actions in Macbeth and the unearthly and mysterious happenings of The Tempest are just some of the stirring retellings this book contains.
The Call of the Wild
Author: Jack LondonMoll Flanders
Author: Daniel DefoePublisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853260735
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Abandoned at birth and threatened with a life in service, Defoe's young rebel sets her heart on independence. One fatal seduction and five husbands later, she resorts to a life of self-supporting crime.
Blindspot
Author: Jane KamenskyPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0385526202
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Stewart Jameson, a Scottish portrait painter fleeing his debtors in Edinburgh, has washed up on the British Empire's far shores—in the city of Boston, lately seized with the spirit of liberty. Eager to begin anew, he advertises for an apprentice, but the lad who comes knocking is no lad at all. Fanny Easton is a fallen woman from Boston's most prominent family who has disguised herself as a boy to become Jameson's defiant and seductive apprentice. Written with wit and exuberance by accomplished historians, Blindspot is an affectionate send-up of the best of eighteenth-century fiction. It celebrates the art of the Enlightenment and the passion of the American Revolution by telling stories of ordinary people caught up in an extraordinary time.