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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Banned Books Week is coming up soon (September 25 - October 2). How about Fanny Hill (actual title: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland?
From the Wikipedia entry:
.....Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (popularly known as Fanny Hill) is an erotic novel by John Cleland first published in England in 1748. Written while the author was in debtor's prison in London, it is considered "the first original English prose pornography, and the first pornography to use the form of the novel." One of the most prosecuted and banned books in history, it has become a synonym for obscenity.
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Tom, if you spend some of your golden words for this, I might third it. Or someone else might. Ea and me have been promoting it quite a lot.