Authors: John Cleland, Peter Wagner
ISBN-13: 9780140432497, ISBN-10: 0140432493
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: January 1986
Edition: Reprint
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The story of a prostitute's rise to respectability, it has been recognized more recently as a unique combination of parody, sensual entertainment and a philosphical concept of sexuality borrowed from French libertine novels.
Modern readers will appreciate it not only as an important contribution to revolutionary thought in the Age of Enlightenment, but also as a thoroghly entertaining and important work of erotic fiction, deserving of a place in the history of the English novel beside Richardson, Fielding and Smollett.