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We will always select for you three great works to instigate your mind, this time the topic is:Classic Erotica.
– Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D H Lawrence
– Venus in Furs by Ritter von Leopold Sacher-Masoch
– Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland Lady Chatterley’s Lover is a novel by English author D. H. Lawrence, first published privately in 1928 in Italy, and in 1929 in France and Australia. An unexpurgated edition was not published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960, when it was the subject of a watershed obscenity trial against the publisher Penguin Books.
Venus in Furs is a novella by the Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and the best known of his works. The novel was to be part of an epic series that Sacher-Masoch envisioned called Legacy of Cain. Venus in Furs was part of Love, the first volume of the series. It was published in 1870. The novel draws themes, like female dominance and sadomasochism, and character inspiration heavily from Sacher-Masoch’s own life.
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasurepopularly known as Fanny Hill (an anglicisation of the Latin mons veneris, mound of Venus)is an erotic novel by English novelist John Cleland first published in London in 1748. Written while the author was in debtors’ prison in London, it is considered ‘the first original English prose pornography, and the first pornography to use the form of the novel’.
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About the author
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch was born in Lemberg, Austrian Galicia, on January 27, 1836. He studied jurisprudence at Prague and Graz, and in 1857 became a teacher at the latter university. He published several historical works, but soon gave up his academic career to devote himself wholly to literature.
Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (27 January 1836 9 March 1895) was an Austrian nobleman, writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name, invented by his contemporary, the Austrian psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing. Masoch did not consent to or approve of this use of his name.
John Cleland (24 September 1709 23 January 1789) was an English novelist best known as the author of Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. James Boswell called him ‘a sly, old malcontent’. In 1748, Cleland was arrested for an £840 debt (equivalent to a purchasing power of about £100, 000 in 2005) and committed to Fleet Prison, where he remained for over a year.
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