
First published in 1751, Memoirs of a Coxcomb is the second novel by John Cleland, after Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, a book that he wrote while in debtor prison and that became one of the most condemned and banned books in history, as the first erotic novel...


Published in 1751, John Cleland's second novel (after the notorious Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) is a witty and complex portrait of aristocratic British society in the mid-eighteenth century. Its young protagonist, Sir William Delamore, meets, falls in love with, and pursues...




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