Fanny Hill Author:John Cleland "No other book of the same kind possesses so much elegance and energy; it is a genuine tale told with considerable art, and gives us a graphic picture of its social age. The Georgians aspired to an ideal elegance. Fanny Hill would have shuddered at Lady Chatterly. The actions described she would have taken in good part, but the roughness and ... more »coarseness of the dialogue she would have found unspeakably offensive." - from the introduction« less