text clean, binding tight, edge wear, corners bumped, some scuffs on covers, hardback, NO JACKET, 1973, Peebles Classic Library, 218 pages, Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: This is the Peebles Classic Library edition of Memoirs of Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. "Fanny Hill, shrouded in controversy for most of its more than 250-year life, and banned from publication in the United States until 1966, was once considered immoral and without literary merit, even earning its author a jail sentence for obscenity. The tale of a naïve young prostitute in bawdy eighteenth-century London who slowly rises to respectability, the novel–and its popularity–endured many bannings and critics, and today Fanny Hill is considered an important piece of political parody and sexual philosophy on par with French libertine novels."