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One of my favorite books. Written in quas-Middle English. Quite a romp.
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Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones
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Discovered on the doorstep of a country estate in Wiltshire, England, the infant Fanny is raised to womanhood by her adoptive parents, Lord and Lady Bellars. Fanny wants to become the epic poet of the age, but her plans are dashed when she is ravished by her libertine stepfather. Fleeing to London, Fanny falls in with idealistic witches and highwaymen who teach her of worlds she never knew existed. After toiling in a London brothel that caters to literati, Fanny embarks on a series of adventures that teach her what she must know to live and prosper as a woman. Soon to be a major Broadway musical. Reading group guide included.
544 pages, Paperback
First published January 1,1980
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544 pages, Paperback
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May 17, 2003 by W. W. Norton \u0026 Company
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9780393324358
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0393324354
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English
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Erica Jong—novelist, poet, and essayist—has consistently used her craft to help provide women with a powerful and rational voice in forging a feminist consciousness. She has published 21 books, including eight novels, six volumes of poetry, six books of non-fiction and numerous articles in magazines and newspapers such as the New York Times, the Sunday Times of London, Elle, Vogue, and the New York Times Book Review.
In her groundbreaking first novel, Fear of Flying (which has sold twenty-six million copies in more than forty languages), she introduced Isadora Wing, who also plays a central part in three subsequent novels—How to Save Your Own Life, Parachutes and Kisses, and Any Woman's Blues. In her three historical novels—Fanny, Shylock's Daughter, and Sappho's Leap—she demonstrates her mastery of eighteenth-century British literature, the verses of Shakespeare, and ancient Greek lyric, respectively. A memoir of her life as a writer, Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life, came out in March 2006. It was a national bestseller in the US and many other countries. Erica's latest book, Sugar in My Bowl, is an anthology of women writing about sex, has been recently released in paperback.
Erica Jong was honored with the United Nations Award for Excellence in Literature. She has also received Poetry magazine's Bess Hokin Prize, also won by W.S. Merwin and Sylvia Plath. In France, she received the Deauville Award for Literary Excellence and in Italy, she received the Sigmund Freud Award for Literature. The City University of New York awarded Ms. Jong an honorary PhD at the College of Staten Island.
Her works have appeared all over the world and are as popular in Eastern Europe, Japan, China, and other Asian countries as they have been in the United States and Western Europe. She has lectured, taught and read her work all over the world.
A graduate of Barnard College and Columbia University's Graduate Faculties where she received her M.A. in 18th Century English Literature, Erica Jong also attended Columbia's graduate writing program where she studied poetry with Stanley Kunitz and Mark Strand. In 2007, continuing her long-standing relationship with the university, a large collection of Erica's archival material was acquired by Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library, where it will be available to graduate and undergraduate students. Ms. Jong plans to teach master classes at Columbia and also advise the Rare Book Library on the acquisition of other women writers' archives.
Calling herself “a defrocked academic,” Ms. Jong has partly returned to her roots as a scholar. She has taught at Ben Gurion University in Israel, Bennington College in the US, Breadloaf Writers' Conference in Vermont and many other distinguished writing programs and universities. She loves to teach and lecture, though her skill in these areas has sometimes crowded her writing projects. “As long as I am communicating the gift of literature, I'm happy,” Jong says. A poet at heart, Ms. Jong believes that words can save the world.
In her groundbreaking first novel, Fear of Flying (which has sold twenty-six million copies in more than forty languages), she introduced Isadora Wing, who also plays a central part in three subsequent novels—How to Save Your Own Life, Parachutes and Kisses, and Any Woman's Blues. In her three historical novels—Fanny, Shylock's Daughter, and Sappho's Leap—she demonstrates her mastery of eighteenth-century British literature, the verses of Shakespeare, and ancient Greek lyric, respectively. A memoir of her life as a writer, Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life, came out in March 2006. It was a national bestseller in the US and many other countries. Erica's latest book, Sugar in My Bowl, is an anthology of women writing about sex, has been recently released in paperback.
Erica Jong was honored with the United Nations Award for Excellence in Literature. She has also received Poetry magazine's Bess Hokin Prize, also won by W.S. Merwin and Sylvia Plath. In France, she received the Deauville Award for Literary Excellence and in Italy, she received the Sigmund Freud Award for Literature. The City University of New York awarded Ms. Jong an honorary PhD at the College of Staten Island.
Her works have appeared all over the world and are as popular in Eastern Europe, Japan, China, and other Asian countries as they have been in the United States and Western Europe. She has lectured, taught and read her work all over the world.
A graduate of Barnard College and Columbia University's Graduate Faculties where she received her M.A. in 18th Century English Literature, Erica Jong also attended Columbia's graduate writing program where she studied poetry with Stanley Kunitz and Mark Strand. In 2007, continuing her long-standing relationship with the university, a large collection of Erica's archival material was acquired by Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library, where it will be available to graduate and undergraduate students. Ms. Jong plans to teach master classes at Columbia and also advise the Rare Book Library on the acquisition of other women writers' archives.
Calling herself “a defrocked academic,” Ms. Jong has partly returned to her roots as a scholar. She has taught at Ben Gurion University in Israel, Bennington College in the US, Breadloaf Writers' Conference in Vermont and many other distinguished writing programs and universities. She loves to teach and lecture, though her skill in these areas has sometimes crowded her writing projects. “As long as I am communicating the gift of literature, I'm happy,” Jong says. A poet at heart, Ms. Jong believes that words can save the world.
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En feministisk klassiker :)
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Well - it's a bawdy, sometimes nearly-pornographic, sometimes disgusting tale. But I love its charm and its sex-positive feminist attitude. I am almost done with it, and the suspense is forcing me to devour it at this point...
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This literally did a 360 in my life in the best way possible. I thank god everyday I had it in hands when I was 15. Fun, unpretentious, rated R and still so many unintentional lessons about life that are valuable to a girl. Before Erica Jong's Fanny I had never seen an adventure about a woman, at THAT time, that was wilder than any Munchausen tale. In fact, I haven't seen any after either. Satanists, incest, rape, sexism, prostitution, homosexualism, racism, pirates, prison, witches, orgies, torture, female rivalry, rebellion, friendship, female bond, betrayal, lies, drama, all in just one book and because she is telling the whole story to Belinda, her daughter, it's written in such a tender and captivating way that you just can't look away. Fanny is the best hero ever.
This book is very unique and will always have a special place in my heart. It's definitely not for everyone, but jackpot for people like me.
This book is very unique and will always have a special place in my heart. It's definitely not for everyone, but jackpot for people like me.
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Beautifully gifted artist writer with a wry yet good humored, worldview and a penchant for adventure!
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e l'ho preso per curiosit��, ma non mi aspettavo di trovarlo tanto divertente :)
Ci sono punti parecchio piccanti, ma l'autrice riesce a descrivere le scene pi�� forti senza scadere nel volgare o nel ridicolo e non �� affatto facile.
Per il resto la storia �� appassionante e piena di colpi di scena, anche se a volte improbabile, simile ai romanzi di avventura dei secoli scorsi. Solo che stavolta la protagonista �� una donna intelligente e colta che cerca di farsi valere in un'epoca dominata dal genere maschile.
Ci sono punti parecchio piccanti, ma l'autrice riesce a descrivere le scene pi�� forti senza scadere nel volgare o nel ridicolo e non �� affatto facile.
Per il resto la storia �� appassionante e piena di colpi di scena, anche se a volte improbabile, simile ai romanzi di avventura dei secoli scorsi. Solo che stavolta la protagonista �� una donna intelligente e colta che cerca di farsi valere in un'epoca dominata dal genere maschile.
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It took me a month to read Erica Jong's re-telling of Fanny Hill. I liked it was told from the feminist perspective instead a man's perspective on a woman's sexuality. It wasn't all about the sex in Ms. Jong's version. It was more about the development of Fanny as person-woman to be exact. It was very wit used the language of the time the original Fanny Hill had been written. I like that she included-John Cleland the author of the first Fannny Hill as a minor character in the novel as well as mentioning the stories of Tom Jones written by Henry Fielding and Pamela written by Samuel Richardson (both books I've read by the way). Both Mr. Fielding and Samuel Richardson were contemporaries of Mr. Cleland. That's why the style of the novel had the feel of all three authors inhabiting the character of Fanny's life and adventures.
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I read this in 1996...got the audio version from audible a few weeks ago. the narrator did a great job.
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