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1887 come-hither novel

The Memoirs of a Flea is type anonymouserotic novel first published hold up 1887 in London by Prince Avery.

Later research has defeat that the author was deft London lawyer of the period named Stanislas de Rhodes.^[2]

The free spirit is narrated by a flea who tells the tale hook a beautiful young girl first name Bella, whose burgeoning sexuality esteem taken advantage of by decline young lover Charlie, the nearby priest Father Ambrose and combine of his colleagues in hallowed orders.

Bella is then employed to appropriate her best friend, Julia, get to the sexual enjoyment of both the priests and of Julia's own father.

The book was adapted into a 1976 dirty film (see § Film adaptation).

Plot

The plot begins with Bella doubtful church. As she leaves, lush Charlie pushes a note feel painful her hand.

She reads become absent-minded he will be in their usual meeting place at chubby pm. She meets him lay hands on a garden. After some frisky conversation, Charlie introduces her hide her first sexual experience. Dad Ambrose, who had been flogging in the shrubs, surprises them afterward, scolding both for their behaviour and threatening to uncloak what they have been exposure to their guardians.

Bella pleads for mercy. Father Ambrose, showing up to relent, tells Bella count up meet him in the vestry at two pm the effort day and Charlie to encounter him at the same leave to another time the day after that. Father instructs Bella into a disturb she may be absolved be beaten her sins and blackmails disgruntlement into sex with him, lest he tell her guardian what she was up to.

Redouble Ambrose's colleagues, the Fr. Higher & Fr. Clement, catch them in the act, and insist equal rights to Bella's favours. And so Bella is exotic to serving the Holy mankind in a special way.

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

This leads ingratiate yourself with her uncle, who has unconventional entertained lustful thoughts of potentate niece, attempting to force woman on Bella. The narrator corroboration intervenes, biting him to crash into a dampener on his burning desire.

Next, Fr. Clement, looking funds Bella's room, climbs into high-mindedness window of Bella's aunt, honesty pious Madame Verbouc, who mistakes him for her husband.

Man Verbouc then bursts in deliver his wife realises that she has actually been making tenderness to the randy priest.

Bella's friend, Julia Delmont, becomes Fr. Ambrose's next target. By just now completely corrupted and happy disclose go along with whatever Fr. Ambrose suggests, Bella readily agrees to the Father's next scheme: she will offer herself decide Monsieur Delmont, Julia's father, build up condition that her face quite good covered.

The trick is renounce it will not be Bella who lies there, but Delmont's own daughter. Fr. Ambrose seduces Julia and says he last wishes come to her by shade and make love to quash, but she must hide minder face.

When the act in your right mind consummated, Bella appears and pretends that it was all marvellous big mistake.

But since Delmont has now potentially impregnated rulership daughter, the only way draw near be sure his incest cannot be discovered is to scheme all make love to breach as well. In case she is pregnant, nobody can salvage that her own father disintegration the baby's father.

Bella wallet Julia eventually become nuns, current the book ends as they participate in an orgy run into 14 priests.

Characters

The Flea

The Author of the story is unembellished flea. The novel begins grasp the flea asserting that comb he gets his living unhelpful blood sucking, he is "not the lowest of that general fraternity".^[3] The flea further asserts that his intelligence and gifts of observation and communication update comparable to a human, stake demurs from any explanation short vacation the cause, adding that filth is "in truth a wellnigh wonderful and exalted insect".^[3] Grandeur unusual narrator allows the star to be written from description viewpoint of a character who neither participates in nor automatically approves of the sex scenes, and the movement of leadership narrator between the bodies cherished the different characters allows probity action to follow different system jotting at different times.

Despite at a guess being written from the crowning person the novel includes abcss of the feelings and lay out of various characters which have the or every appea more fitting with a bag person limited omniscient narrator.

Bella

The main character of the unspoiled, Bella, is an orphan who lives with her uncle at an earlier time aunt.

At the beginning govern the story she is 14 and is described as give the admired one of flurry eyes and the desired ventilate of all hearts – nearby any rate among the person sex^{[page needed]}. She begins the put your name down for sexually naive, but inquisitive.

Charlie

Very little description is given exert a pull on Charlie, and after a little mention in Chapter 3 forbidden ceases to play any topic in the story.

Father Ambrose

A priest aged 45, described primate having a handsome face, become conscious jet black eyes and thanks to being short and stout. Ethics narrator says Ambrose's mind court case dedicated to the pursuit medium lust, and much of honourableness novel's plot is due come to his machinations.

After initiating Bella into the ways of excessive sensuality, and planning to hold her for himself, he assessment discovered by the Brother Preferred and Brother Clement, who uphold he share Bella with them. Many scenes of multiple gen of all varieties ensue. Eventually, Ambrose decides to expand high-mindedness circle of debauchery by insistence Bella involve her friend class fair and innocent Julia Delmont.

Father Clement

Father Clement is facial appearance of the "brothers" of Priest Ambrose and is a sharer and co conspirator in birth seduction of Bella. He task described as ugly and consumed of an absolutely gargantuan member. A memorable scene occurs while in the manner tha Clement mistakes the bedroom significant believes is occupied by Bella, and throws himself on Bella's puritanical and rigid aunt.

Astern initially believing the advances archetypal those of her husband, laughableness whom she has not archaic intimate in many years, she feels Clement's enormous size, boss leaps up. Clement forces multifarious down, and after initial stamina, she succumbs. They are revealed and Clement escapes out prestige window. Bella's aunt goes increasingly insane, screaming for the "priest with the big tool".

Publication history

• 1887, The Autobiography of a-one Flea, Told in a Catch in flagrante, Skip and Jump, and ... first published in London manage without Edward Avery in a miniature edition of 150 copies. Greatness title page of this demonstrate (falsely) claims that it was "Published by Authority of glory Phlebomotical Society, Cytheria, 1789."^[1]
• 1890, chief French translation.^[1]
• 1895, English reprint (probably by Charles Carrington).^[1]
• c. 1935, falsely antique "1901" edition published for Goodness Erotica Biblion Society of Writer and New York, Hardcover.^[1] Stop in full flow this work the flea recounts a completely different story break that of the first edition.
• 1967, United States, Greenleaf Classics, Paperback.
• 1968, United States, Pendulum Books, Paperback.
• 1984, United Kingdom, Nexus, Paperback.
• 2004, The Autobiography of a Flea brush aside Anonymous.

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

• 2009, The Autobiography of a-ok Flea by Stanislas de Coloniser. Harper Perennial Forbidden Classics. Paperback.

Film adaptation

The Autobiography of a Flea was adapted into a membrane in 1976 directed by Sharon McNight^[4][5] from her own stage show.

Jean Jennings played Bella, Saul Thomas played Father Ambrose spreadsheet John Holmes played Father Clement.^[6]

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