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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Paperback)
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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Paperback)
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Loot Price R536
Discovery Miles 5 360
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John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure has been described as
the first erotic novel in English and is perhaps the greatest
example of the genre. From the outset it was mired in disrepute.
Cleland penned the novel to liberate himself from debtors' prison,
and the book's manifestly lewd content led to its legal suppression
within a year of publication. Though versions of the novel, nearly
always abridged in some form, continued to find a way into print,
the Memoirs remained an underground text until the 1960s. Only as
that decade ushered in a culture less socially deferential and more
sexually permissive was the moment opportune for the obscenity ban
to be successfully challenged. Cleland's novel is a triumph of
literary style, resting on his invention of an entirely new,
vividly metaphoric, terminology for describing sexual pleasure.
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