Tài liệu tham khảo dành cho các bạn rèn luyện khả năng đọc tiếng anh - Memoirs Of Fanny Hill | MEMOIRS OF FANNY HILL By John Cleland Prepared and Published by Ebd LETTER THE FIRST I sit down to give you an undeniable proof of my considering your desires as indispensable orders. Ungracious then as the task may be I shall recall to view those scandalous stages of my life out of which I emerged at length to the enjoyment of every blessing in the power of love health and fortune to bestow whilst yet in the flower of youth and not too late to employ the leisure afforded me by great ease and affluence to cultivate an understanding naturally not a despicable one and which had even amidst the whirl of loose pleasures I had been tossed in exerted more observation on the characters and manners of the world than what is common to those of my unhappy profession who looking on all though or reflection as their capital enemy keep it at as great a distance as they can or destroy it without mercy. Hating as I mortally do all long unnecessary prefaces I shall give you good quarter in this and use no farther apology than to prepare you for seeing the loose part of my life written with the same liberty that I led it. Truth stark naked truth is the word and I will not so much as take the pains to bestow the strip of a gauze wrapper on it but paint situations such as they actually rose to me in nature careless of violating those laws of decency that were never made for such unreserved intimacies as ours and you have too much sense too much knowledge of the originals to sniff prudishly and out of character at the pictures of them. The greatest men those of the first and most leading taste will not scruple adorning their private closets with nudities though in compliance with vulgar prejudices they may not think them decent decorations of the staircase or salon. This and enough premised I go souse into my personal history. My maiden name was Frances Hill. I was born at a small village near Liverpool in Lancashire of parents extremely poor and I piously believe
