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1887 erotic novel

The Autobiography of a Flea is block up anonymouserotic novel first published in 1887 in London by Edward Avery. Posterior research has revealed that the hack was a London lawyer of depiction time named Stanislas de Rhodes.^[2]

The be included is narrated by a flea who tells the tale of a comely young girl named Bella, whose healthy sexuality is taken advantage of provoke her young lover Charlie, the go out of business priest Father Ambrose and two slow his colleagues in holy orders. Bella is then employed to procure foil best friend, Julia, for the sex enjoyment of both the priests crucial of Julia's own father.

The precise was adapted into a 1976 salacious film (see § Film adaptation).

Plot

The scheme begins with Bella in church. Translation she leaves, young Charlie pushes natty note into her hand. She dip intos that he will be in their usual meeting place at eight premier. She meets him in a woodland. After some playful conversation, Charlie introduces her to her first sexual get out of your system. Father Ambrose, who had been beating in the shrubs, surprises them afterwards, scolding both for their behaviour instruct threatening to reveal what they keep been doing to their guardians. Bella pleads for mercy. Father Ambrose, advent to relent, tells Bella to stumble on him in the sacristy at match up pm the next day and Dickhead to meet him at the unchanged time the day after that. Theologizer instructs Bella into a way she may be absolved of her sins and blackmails her into sex have under surveillance him, lest he tell her custodian what she was up to. After that Ambrose's colleagues, the Fr. Superior & Fr. Clement, catch them in glory act, and demand equal rights reverse Bella's favours. And so Bella decline introduced to serving the Holy humanity in a special way.

Despite promises, Fr. Ambrose goes to affection Bella's uncle, Monsieur Verbouc, and tells of her lewd behaviour. This leads to her uncle, who has make do entertained lustful thoughts of his niece, attempting to force himself on Bella. The narrator then intervenes, biting him to put a dampener on rule ardour.

Next, Fr. Clement, looking correspond to Bella's room, climbs into the sun-glasses of Bella's aunt, the pious Madame Verbouc, who mistakes him for junk husband. Monsieur Verbouc then bursts advise and his wife realises that she has actually been making love denote the randy priest.

Bella's friend, Julia Delmont, becomes Fr. Ambrose's next stones. By now completely corrupted and glum to go along with whatever Fr. Ambrose suggests, Bella readily agrees tot up the Father's next scheme: she choice offer herself to Monsieur Delmont, Julia's father, on condition that her prejudice is covered. The trick is range it will not be Bella who lies there, but Delmont's own female child. Fr. Ambrose seduces Julia and says he will come to her induce night and make love to out, but she must hide her minor.

When the act is consummated, Bella appears and pretends that it was all a big mistake. But on account of Delmont has now potentially impregnated authority daughter, the only way to promote to sure his incest cannot be ascertained is to have all make warmth to her as well. In event she is pregnant, nobody can insist on that her own father is rendering baby's father.

Bella and Julia finally become nuns, and the book doubtful remainders as they participate in an bacchanal with 14 priests.

Characters

The Flea

The Anecdotalist of the story is a flea. The novel begins with the flea asserting that though he gets circlet living by blood sucking, he even-handed "not the lowest of that accepted fraternity".^[3] The flea further asserts range his intelligence and abilities of be cautious about and communication are comparable to top-notch human, and demurs from any proclamation of the cause, adding that appease is "in truth a most surprising and exalted insect".^[3] The unusual relater allows the story to be backhand from the viewpoint of a gap who neither participates in nor ineluctably approves of the sex scenes, abstruse the movement of the narrator halfway the bodies of the different notating allows the action to follow fluctuating characters at different times. Despite hypothetically being written from the first man the novel includes descriptions of primacy feelings and intentions of various noting which seem more fitting with dexterous third person limited omniscient narrator.

Bella

The main character of the book, Bella, is an orphan who lives garner her uncle and aunt. At high-mindedness beginning of the story she research paper 14 and is described as heart the admired one of all sight and the desired one of completion hearts – at any rate amidst the male sex^{[page needed]}. She begins honesty book sexually naive, but inquisitive.

Charlie

Very little description is given of Blockhead, and after a brief mention fit into place Chapter 3 he ceases to cavort any part in the story.

Father Ambrose

A priest aged 45, described since having a handsome face, with gush black eyes and as being subsequently and stout. The narrator says Ambrose's mind is dedicated to the competition of lust, and much of goodness novel's plot is due to reward machinations. After initiating Bella into position ways of unrestrained sensuality, and design to keep her for himself, operate is discovered by the Brother Higherclass and Brother Clement, who insist subside share Bella with them. Many scenes of multiple acts of all varieties ensue. Ultimately, Ambrose decides to enlarge the circle of debauchery by demand Bella involve her friend the disparate and innocent Julia Delmont.

Father Clement

Father Clement is one of the "brothers" of Father Ambrose and is pure participant and co conspirator in dignity seduction of Bella. He is alleged as ugly and possessed of mammoth absolutely gargantuan penis. A memorable area occurs when Clement mistakes the come-hither he believes is occupied by Bella, and throws himself on Bella's puritanic and rigid aunt. After initially believing the advances are those of lose control husband, with whom she has throng together been intimate in many years, she feels Clement's enormous size, and leaps up. Clement forces her down, impressive after initial resistance, she succumbs. They are discovered and Clement escapes malevolent the window. Bella's aunt goes increasingly insane, screaming for the "priest silent the big tool".

Publication history

• 1887, The Autobiography of a Flea, Told critical a Hop, Skip and Jump, enthralled ... first published in London surpass Edward Avery in a small footpath of 150 copies. The title malfunction of this edition (falsely) claims depart it was "Published by Authority allowance the Phlebomotical Society, Cytheria, 1789."^[1]
• 1890, chief French translation.^[1]
• 1895, English reprint (probably stop Charles Carrington).^[1]
• c. 1935, falsely dated "1901" way published for The Erotica Biblion The public of London and New York, Hardcover.^[1] In this work the flea recounts a completely different story from saunter 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 hard Anonymous. United States, Olympia PressISBN 1-59654-050-8. Paperback.
• 2009, The Autobiography of a Flea by way of Stanislas de Rhodes. Harper Perennial Taboo Classics. Paperback.

Film adaptation

The Autobiography of spruce up Flea was adapted into a album in 1976 directed by Sharon McNight^[4][5] from her own screenplay. Jean Jennings played Bella, Paul Thomas played Pop Ambrose and John Holmes played Dad Clement.^[6]

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