Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, by John Cleland (1749)
This tale of a prostitute's rise through the social ranks might be the most banned book in history. In 1966 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that because it had some redeeming social value, it could not be deemed obscene.
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