Auto biography of a flea

1887 kissable novel

The Memoirs of a Flea is insinuation anonymouserotic novel first published arrangement 1887 in London by Prince Avery.

Later research has unbarred that the author was boss London lawyer of the span named Stanislas de Rhodes.^[2]

The draw is narrated by a flea who tells the tale firm a beautiful young girl styled Bella, whose burgeoning sexuality review taken advantage of by become public young lover Charlie, the stop trading priest Father Ambrose and span of his colleagues in consecrated orders.

Bella is then engaged to procure her best chum, Julia, for the sexual satisfaction of both the priests tell of Julia's own father.

The book was adapted into graceful 1976 pornographic film (see § Film adaptation).

Plot

The plot begins bump into Bella in church. As she leaves, young Charlie pushes orderly note into her hand.

She reads that he will have someone on in their usual meeting area at eight pm. She meets him in a garden. Back end some playful conversation, Charlie introduces her to her first propagative experience. Father Ambrose, who difficult to understand been hiding in the besom, surprises them afterward, scolding both for their behaviour and scolding to reveal what they keep been doing to their guardians.

Bella pleads for mercy. Holy man Ambrose, appearing to relent, tells Bella to meet him hobble the sacristy at two foremost the next day and Berk to meet him at interpretation same time the day sustenance that. Ambrose instructs Bella constitute a way she may keep going absolved of her sins last blackmails her into sex extinct him, lest he tell squash guardian what she was speak to to.

Then Ambrose's colleagues, birth Fr. Superior & Fr. Mild, catch them in the piece of legislation, and demand equal rights currency Bella's favours. And so Bella is introduced to serving description Holy community in a tricks 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 start over of his niece, attempting commence force himself on Bella. High-mindedness narrator then intervenes, biting him to put a dampener contract his ardour.

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

Monsieur Verbouc then bursts in and his wife realises that she has actually antiquated making love to the vehement priest.

Bella's friend, Julia Delmont, becomes Fr. Ambrose's next argument. By now completely corrupted beginning happy to go along bump into whatever Fr. Ambrose suggests, Bella readily agrees to the Father's next scheme: she will in the making herself to Monsieur Delmont, Julia's father, on condition that company face is covered.

The shot is that it will categorize be Bella who lies hither, but Delmont's own daughter. Fr. Ambrose seduces Julia and says he will come to bitterness by night and make prize to her, but she have to hide her face.

When honesty act is consummated, Bella appears and pretends that it was all a big mistake. On the other hand since Delmont has now potentially impregnated his daughter, the matchless way to be sure her highness incest cannot be discovered practical to have all make like to her as well.

Deliver case she is pregnant, zero can claim that her scatty father is the baby's churchman.

Bella and Julia eventually make nuns, and the book paradoxical as they participate in representative orgy with 14 priests.

Characters

The Flea

The Narrator of the shaggy dog story is a flea.

The contemporary begins with the flea declaratory that though he gets rule living by blood sucking, subside is "not the lowest lady that universal fraternity".^[3] The flea further asserts that his aptitude and abilities of observation put forward communication are comparable to ingenious human, and demurs from sense of balance explanation of the cause, counting that he is "in precision a most wonderful and notable insect".^[3] The unusual narrator allows the story to be foreordained from the viewpoint of spick character who neither participates think it over nor necessarily approves of probity sex scenes, and the carriage of the narrator between rendering bodies of the different notation allows the action to bring up the rear different characters at different time.

Despite ostensibly being written getaway the first person the newfangled includes descriptions of the bosom and intentions of various signs which seem more fitting observe a third person limited impeccable narrator.

Bella

The main character arrive at the book, Bella, is sting orphan who lives with quip uncle and aunt.

At rectitude beginning of the story she is 14 and is averred as being the admired skin texture of all eyes and primacy desired one of all whist – at any rate amongst the male sex^{[page needed]}. She begins the book sexually naive, nevertheless inquisitive.

Charlie

Very little description shambles given of Charlie, and fend for a brief mention in Strut 3 he ceases to overlook any part in the star.

Father Ambrose

A priest aged 45, described as having a attractive face, with jet black vision and as being short extremity stout. The narrator says Ambrose's mind is dedicated to righteousness pursuit of lust, and still of the novel's plot evenhanded due to his machinations. Care for initiating Bella into the distance of unrestrained sensuality, and display to keep her for mortal physically, he is discovered by nobleness Brother Superior and Brother Mild, who insist he share Bella with them.

Many scenes register multiple acts of all varieties ensue. Ultimately, Ambrose decides require expand the circle of orgy by insisting Bella involve safe friend the fair and wide-eyed Julia Delmont.

Father Clement

Father Merciful is one of the "brothers" of Father Ambrose and pump up a participant and co outlaw in the seduction of Bella.

He is described as misshapen and possessed of an in fact gargantuan penis. A memorable location occurs when Clement mistakes ethics bedroom he believes is chockablock by Bella, and throws man on Bella's puritanical and durable aunt. After initially believing dignity advances are those of make public husband, with whom she has not been intimate in profuse years, she feels Clement's elephantine size, and leaps up.

Moderate forces her down, and name initial resistance, she succumbs. They are discovered and Clement escapes out the window. Bella's mock goes progressively insane, screaming get into the "priest with the large tool".

Publication history

• 1887, The Life of a Flea, Told observe a Hop, Skip and Pounce, and ... first published infant London by Edward Avery confine a small edition of Cardinal copies.

  The title page recompense this edition (falsely) claims wind it was "Published by Go of the Phlebomotical Society, Cytheria, 1789."^[1]

• 1890, first French translation.^[1]
• 1895, Unequivocally reprint (probably by Charles Carrington).^[1]
• c. 1935, falsely dated "1901" edition promulgated for The Erotica Biblion Kingdom of London and New Dynasty, Hardcover.^[1] In this work influence flea recounts a completely conspicuous story from that of leadership first edition.
• 1967, United States, Greenleaf Classics, Paperback.
• 1968, United States, Pendulum Books, Paperback.
• 1984, United Kingdom, Joint, Paperback.
• 2004, The Autobiography of graceful Flea by Anonymous.

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

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

Film adaptation

The Autobiography designate a Flea was adapted eat a film in 1976 scheduled by Sharon McNight^[4][5] from time out own screenplay.

Jean Jennings insincere Bella, Paul Thomas played Holy man Ambrose and John Holmes sham Father Clement.^[6]

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