Fanny Hill 📖

Fanny Hill

John Cleland
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literary fiction 18th-century erotica past tense first POV ~404 pp

Vibe

erotic gritty unreliable

A dark literary fiction. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose. Deeply introspective. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable romance, sexual content.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 85
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 20
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 5
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 70
externalintrospective
Ending 10
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 30
intimateepic

Content

Violence 40%
noneextreme
Sexual content 98%
noneexplicit
Humor 30%
seriouscomedic
Romance 60%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count100,977
Page count~404 pp
Prologue
Epilogue
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst