I'd seen an excerpt from Fanny Hill in a collection I read several years ago, and this little book (text of the 1779 original) caught my eye on the bookshelf of our local SPCA thrift store. I found it at least as interesting for its historic and cultural context as for the erotic storytelling (the latter of which I found pretty repetitive, somewhat melodramatic, and unconvincingly represented as a woman's memoirs).

Still, I found this on the "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" list, and so am including Fanny Hill in ivylibra224's book box with this theme. I wonder what its next readers will think of it!

Taken from ivylibra224's 1001 Books to Read Before You Die Bookbox. Thanks!

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Read this many years ago so making available.

Sending to a reader in PA.

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