Fanny Hill - Couverture souple

Cleland, John

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Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1848587589 ISBN 13 : 9781848587588

Editeur : Arcturus Publishing Ltd, 2012

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Biographie de l'auteur :

John Cleland was born in 1710, the eldest son of William Cleland, an officer and friend of Pope. He entered Westminster School in 1721 and remained there until his sudden departure in 1723. Later he joined the East India Company, where he rose from simple soldier to businessman and eventually secretary of the Bombay Council. However, his good fortune did not last and he left Bombay around 1740 and returned to London in 1741. Thereafter Cleland followed a career as literary hack, Grub Street writer and journalist. The life was extremely competitive and though Cleland pursued every promising avenue, both literary writing and factual reporting, he was in costant financial difficulty. He was imprisoned for debt on several occasions and on one of these, between February 1748 and March 1749, he usefully employed his time by revising and rewriting a draft of a novel entitled Fanny Hill. Both volumes of Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, the final title, were published before his release. Cleland enjoyed some success with Fanny Hill and he hoped to exploit this with a sequel, Memoirs of a Coxcomb; but this and his other attempts at erotic fiction sank into oblivion. Impoverished and virtually unknown, John Cleland died in Westminster in January 1789

Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

Fanny Hill, the rags-to-riches tale of a young woman in Georgian London, has been a byword in racy reading for over 250 years. A very welcome addition to the enduringly popular Arcturus Classics series.

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