One of my favorite books. Written in quas-Middle English. Quite a romp.

En feministisk klassiker :)

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...

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.

Beautifully gifted artist writer with a wry yet good humored, worldview and a penchant for adventure!

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.

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.

I read this in 1996...got the audio version from audible a few weeks ago. the narrator did a great job.

If you've read Fanny Hill: Memoirs Of A Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland, you'll appreciate this book as a counterweight. Jong's Fanny was likely more interesting in 1980 when first published. Cleland's book was only legal in the U.S. beginning in 1963.
After 100 pages I had just had enough of the style of 1748–49.

[These notes were made in 1982:]. An interesting attempt to imitate the eighteenth-century style while imposing the anachronism of 20th-century sensibilities on an eighteenth-century setting. Fanny Hackabout-Jones is supposed to be the true original of Fanny Hill, and while she has, if anything, even wilder erotic adventures than her namesake, she is also possessed of a good strong feminist bent with which she becomes very much too didactic at times - in fact, even the generally didactic tone of a good many eighteenth-century novels doesn't quite let her get away with it. The novel has a great deal more scope than Cleland's - as indeed, one would hope. Besides the brothel, we also get a pirate ship, London secret societies, Newgate ... Ms. Jong has obviously done her homework, and has some academic credibility, although for one who does not have to struggle with 18th-century language, her occasional modernisms jar terribly - pace her explanation in the afterword. Fanny's erotic scope is considerably larger than her namesake's too - there is a greater acceptance of - almost a paean to - homosexuality in both sexes; group sex; and just about every kind of sex besides - even the suggestion of (though not the actual achievement of) bestiality. Does it finally work? It's an entertaining enough romp, so I suppose in that sense it works - but in some ways Erica Jong is too good at the 18th-century style, for I found myself reacting -incredibly enough - with 18th-century sensibilities to her 20th-century tirades, and the dislocation was just enough to take the edge off the pleasure of reading this most interesting experiment.

I still love this book. I read it repeatedly years ago, and wanted something light that wouldn't require total attention while on vacation in Vegas, while still keeping with my effort to read British history. This fit the bill perfectly.

A female pirate adventure, written in baudy old English. It is hard not to love Erica Jong...