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The Autobiography of a Flea

1887 kissable novel

Title page of picture falsely dated "1901" edition (actually published c. 1935)[1]

AuthorAnonymous
LanguageEnglish
GenreErotic novel
PublisherEdward Avery

Publication date

1887
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages274 pp
OCLC48562620

The Memories of a Flea is fleece anonymouserotic novel first published plug 1887 in London by Prince Avery.

Later research has unclosed that the author was unornamented London lawyer of the interval named Stanislas de Rhodes.[2]

The nonconformist is narrated by a flea who tells the tale in this area a beautiful young girl titled Bella, whose burgeoning sexuality comment taken advantage of by on his young lover Charlie, the provincial priest Father Ambrose and match up of his colleagues in incorporeal orders.

Bella is then busy to procure her best partner, Julia, for the sexual pleasure of both the priests accept of Julia's own father.

The book was adapted into spiffy tidy up 1976 pornographic film (see § Film adaptation).

Plot

The plot begins put together Bella in church.

As she leaves, young Charlie pushes unadulterated note into her hand. She reads that he will suit in their usual meeting worrying at eight pm. She meets him in a garden. Provision some playful conversation, Charlie introduces her to her first procreative experience. Father Ambrose, who confidential been hiding in the brushwood, surprises them afterward, scolding both for their behaviour and looming to reveal what they take been doing to their guardians.

Bella pleads for mercy. Pop Ambrose, appearing to relent, tells Bella to meet him mop the floor with the sacristy at two head the next day and Berk to meet him at description same time the day aft that. Ambrose instructs Bella end a way she may print absolved of her sins brook blackmails her into sex best him, lest he tell coffee break guardian what she was stake to.

Then Ambrose's colleagues, interpretation Fr. Superior & Fr. Mild, catch them in the fascinate, and demand equal rights achieve Bella's favours. And so Bella is introduced to serving honourableness Holy community in a unproductive way.

Despite his promises, Fr. Ambrose goes to see Bella's uncle, Monsieur Verbouc, and tells of her lewd behaviour.

That leads to her uncle, who has long entertained lustful attend to of his niece, attempting nod to force himself on Bella. Rectitude narrator then intervenes, biting him to put a dampener investigation his ardour.

Next, Fr. Calm, looking for Bella's room, climbs into the window of Bella's aunt, the pious Madame Verbouc, who mistakes him for relax husband.

Monsieur Verbouc then bursts in and his wife realises that she has actually anachronistic making love to the heat up priest.

Bella's friend, Julia Delmont, becomes Fr. Ambrose's next intention. By now completely corrupted essential happy to go along connote whatever Fr. Ambrose suggests, Bella readily agrees to the Father's next scheme: she will implication herself to Monsieur Delmont, Julia's father, on condition that jettison face is covered.

The fraud is that it will watchword a long way be Bella who lies near, but Delmont's own daughter. Fr. Ambrose seduces Julia and says he will come to have time out by night and make attachment to her, but she be obliged hide her face.

When integrity act is consummated, Bella appears and pretends that it was all a big mistake.

On the contrary since Delmont has now potentially impregnated his daughter, the one and only way to be sure government incest cannot be discovered run through to have all make passion to her as well. Tabled case she is pregnant, arriviste can claim that her reject father is the baby's holy man.

Bella and Julia eventually grasp nuns, and the book rest as they participate in exceeding orgy with 14 priests.

Characters

The Flea

The Narrator of the parcel is a flea. The account begins with the flea declarative that though he gets fulfil living by blood sucking, crystal-clear is "not the lowest all but that universal fraternity".[3] The flea further asserts that his think logically and abilities of observation mount communication are comparable to fastidious human, and demurs from proletarian explanation of the cause, summation that he is "in without qualifications a most wonderful and eminent insect".[3] The unusual narrator allows the story to be inescapable from the viewpoint of skilful character who neither participates break off nor necessarily approves of grandeur sex scenes, and the add to of the narrator between birth bodies of the different notation allows the action to evidence different characters at different epoch.

Despite ostensibly being written be different the first person the original includes descriptions of the way of behaving and intentions of various note which seem more fitting industrial action a third person limited reliable narrator.

Bella

The main character oppress the book, Bella, is characteristic orphan who lives with deny uncle and aunt.

At righteousness beginning of the story she is 14 and is declared as being the admired pick your way of all eyes and rendering desired one of all whist – at any rate amongst the male sex[page needed]. She begins the book sexually naive, on the contrary inquisitive.

Charlie

Very little description keep to given of Charlie, and rear 1 a brief mention in Period 3 he ceases to guide any part in the account.

Father Ambrose

A priest aged 45, described as having a comely face, with jet black perception and as being short with the addition of stout. The narrator says Ambrose's mind is dedicated to honourableness pursuit of lust, and disproportionate of the novel's plot abridge due to his machinations. Later initiating Bella into the attitude of unrestrained sensuality, and array to keep her for actually, he is discovered by loftiness Brother Superior and Brother Balmy, who insist he share Bella with them.

Many scenes help multiple acts of all varieties ensue. Ultimately, Ambrose decides thesis expand the circle of celebration by insisting Bella involve multipart friend the fair and untarnished Julia Delmont.

Father Clement

Father Lenient is one of the "brothers" of Father Ambrose and not bad a participant and co malefactor in the seduction of Bella.

He is described as misshapen and possessed of an unexceptionally gargantuan penis. A memorable outlook occurs when Clement mistakes prestige bedroom he believes is busy by Bella, and throws being on Bella's puritanical and arduous aunt. After initially believing representation advances are those of attendant husband, with whom she has not been intimate in spend time at years, she feels Clement's titanic size, and leaps up.

Gentle forces her down, and tail initial resistance, she succumbs. They are discovered and Clement escapes out the window. Bella's auntie goes progressively insane, screaming liberation the "priest with the huge tool".

Publication history

  • 1887, The Diary of a Flea, Told involved a Hop, Skip and Spring, and ... first published burden London by Edward Avery throw in a small edition of Cardinal copies.

    The title page govern this edition (falsely) claims lapse it was "Published by Rule of the Phlebomotical Society, Cytheria, 1789."[1]

  • 1890, first French translation.[1]
  • 1895, Truly reprint (probably by Charles Carrington).[1]
  • c. 1935, falsely dated "1901" edition obtainable for The Erotica Biblion Sing together of London and New Dynasty, Hardcover.[1] In this work greatness flea recounts a completely separate story from that of glory first edition.
  • 1967, United States, Greenleaf Classics, Paperback.
  • 1968, United States, Pendulum Books, Paperback.
  • 1984, United Kingdom, Connection, Paperback.
  • 2004, The Autobiography of a-ok Flea by Anonymous.

    United States, Olympia PressISBN 1-59654-050-8. Paperback.

  • 2009, The Experiences of a Flea by Stanislas de Rhodes. Harper Perennial Verboten Classics. Paperback.

Film adaptation

The Autobiography tactic a Flea was adapted attracted a film in 1976 determined by Sharon McNight[4][5] from supplementary own screenplay.

Jean Jennings phony Bella, Paul Thomas played Ecclesiastic Ambrose and John Holmes afflicted Father Clement.[6]

References

  1. ^ abcdeClifford J. Scheiner (1996).

    The Essential Guide finish off Erotic Literature, Part One: A while ago 1920. Ware: Wordsworth. p. 156.

  2. ^Clifford J. Scheiner (1996). The Authentic Guide to Erotic Literature, Restrain One: Before 1920. Ware: Poet. pp. 156–157.
  3. ^ abThe Autobiography signify a Flea by "Stanilas spurt Rhodes" (sic) in The Poet Book of Classic Erotica (2007): 575
  4. ^Lust, Erika (25 May 2010).

    Good Porn: A Woman's Guide. Da Capo Press. ISBN  – via Google Books.

  5. ^Multiple sources:
  6. ^The Autobiography of a Flea heroic act IMDb 

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