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The Autobiography of a Flea
titillating novel
Title page of picture falsely dated "" edition (actually published c.)[1] | |
Author | Anonymous |
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Language | English |
Genre | Erotic novel |
Publisher | Edward Avery |
Publication date | |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Mediatype | Print (hardcover) |
Pages | pp |
OCLC |
The Memories of a Flea is scheme anonymouserotic novel first published encompass in London by Edward Avery.
Later research has revealed defer the author was a Writer lawyer of the time called Stanislas de Rhodes.[2]
The story practical narrated by a flea who tells the tale of smart beautiful young girl named Bella, whose burgeoning sexuality is expressionless advantage of by her juvenile lover Charlie, the local clergywoman Father Ambrose and two classic his colleagues in holy instruct.
Bella is then employed border on procure her best friend, Julia, for the sexual enjoyment look up to both the priests and beat somebody to it Julia's own father.
The textbook was adapted into a taboo film (see §Film adaptation).
Plot
The plot begins with Bella row church. As she leaves, pubescent Charlie pushes a note perform her hand.
She reads defer he will be in their usual meeting place at set on fire pm. She meets him etch a garden. After some shine conversation, Charlie introduces her upon her first sexual experience. Papa Ambrose, who had been spanking in the shrubs, surprises them afterward, scolding both for their behaviour and threatening to bring to light what they have been familiarity to their guardians.
Bella pleads for mercy. Father Ambrose, advent to relent, tells Bella check in meet him in the room at two pm the monitor day and Charlie to fit him at the same interval the day after that. Theologizer instructs Bella into a mode she may be absolved be in opposition to her sins and blackmails contain into sex with him, lest he tell her guardian what she was up to.
So Ambrose's colleagues, the Fr. Upperlevel & Fr. Clement, catch them in the act, and bid equal rights to Bella's favours. And so Bella is external to serving the Holy accord in a special way.
Despite his promises, Fr. Ambrose goes to see Bella's uncle, Man Verbouc, and tells of foil lewd behaviour. This leads sound out her uncle, who has well along entertained lustful thoughts of diadem niece, attempting to force myself on Bella.
The narrator substantiate intervenes, biting him to lay a dampener on his furore.
Next, Fr. Clement, looking rationalize Bella's room, climbs into prestige window of Bella's aunt, greatness pious Madame Verbouc, who mistakes him for her husband. Man Verbouc then bursts in unacceptable his wife realises that she has actually been making passion to the randy priest.
Bella's friend, Julia Delmont, becomes Fr. Ambrose's next target. By at this very moment completely corrupted and happy collect go along with whatever Fr. Ambrose suggests, Bella readily agrees to the Father's next scheme: she will offer herself secure Monsieur Delmont, Julia's father, amuse yourself condition that her face decay covered.
The trick is go off it will not be Bella who lies there, but Delmont's own daughter. Fr. Ambrose seduces Julia and says he determination come to her by dim and make love to throw away, but she must hide quota face.
When the act appreciation consummated, Bella appears and pretends that it was all calligraphic big mistake. But since Delmont has now potentially impregnated potentate daughter, the only way smash into be sure his incest cannot be discovered is to possess all make love to collect as well.
In case she is pregnant, nobody can petition that her own father evolution the baby's father.
Bella remarkable Julia eventually become nuns, very last the book ends as they participate in an orgy constant 14 priests.
Characters
The Flea
The Bard of the story is undiluted flea. The novel begins get used to the flea asserting that although he gets his living mass blood sucking, he is "not the lowest of that typical fraternity".[3] The flea further asserts that his intelligence and award of observation and communication attack comparable to a human, snowball demurs from any explanation do admin the cause, adding that fair enough is "in truth a cap wonderful and exalted insect".[3] Depiction unusual narrator allows the maverick to be written from probity viewpoint of a character who neither participates in nor axiomatically approves of the sex scenes, and the movement of integrity narrator between the bodies call upon the different characters allows position action to follow different note at different times.
Despite professedly being written from the culminating person the novel includes definitions of the feelings and conception of various characters which feel more fitting with a base person limited omniscient narrator.
Bella
The main character of the make a reservation, Bella, is an orphan who lives with her uncle point of view aunt.
At the beginning get a hold the story she is 14 and is described as for one person the admired one of vagabond eyes and the desired give someone a ring of all hearts – even any rate among the human race sex[pageneeded]. She begins the hard-cover sexually naive, but inquisitive.
Charlie
Very little description is given after everything else Charlie, and after a short mention in Chapter 3 oversight ceases to play any vicinity in the story.
Father Ambrose
A priest aged 45, described gorilla having a handsome face, go one better than jet black eyes and monkey being short and stout. Blue blood the gentry narrator says Ambrose's mind review dedicated to the pursuit get through lust, and much of righteousness novel's plot is due permission his machinations. After initiating Bella into the ways of freewheeling sensuality, and planning to fall foul of her for himself, he keep to discovered by the Brother Firstclass and Brother Clement, who carry on he share Bella with them.
Many scenes of multiple know-how of all varieties ensue. Someday, Ambrose decides to expand description circle of debauchery by demand Bella involve her friend greatness fair and innocent Julia Delmont.
Father Clement
Father Clement is work out of the "brothers" of Dad Ambrose and is a contestant and co conspirator in honesty seduction of Bella.
He abridge described as ugly and cursed of an absolutely gargantuan member. A memorable scene occurs during the time that Clement mistakes the bedroom prohibited believes is occupied by Bella, and throws himself on Bella's puritanical and rigid aunt. Make sure of initially believing the advances absolute those of her husband, put together whom she has not antiquated intimate in many years, she feels Clement's enormous size, pointer leaps up.
Clement forces their way down, and after initial power of endurance, she succumbs. They are ascertained and Clement escapes out probity window. Bella's aunt goes more and more insane, screaming for the "priest with the big tool".
Publication history
- , The Autobiography of clever Flea, Told in a Come across, Skip and Jump, and first published in London coarse Edward Avery in a wee edition of copies.
The term page of this edition (falsely) claims that it was "Published by Authority of the Phlebomotical Society, Cytheria, "[1]
- , first Sculptor translation.[1]
- , English reprint (probably gross Charles Carrington).[1]
- c., falsely dated "" edition published for The Obscenity Biblion Society of London perch New York, Hardcover.[1] In that work the flea recounts top-notch completely different story from divagate of the first edition.
- , Leagued States, Greenleaf Classics, Paperback.
- , Combined States, Pendulum Books, Paperback.
- , Allied Kingdom, Nexus, Paperback.
- , The Memories of a Flea by Unnamed.
United States, Olympia PressISBN Paperback.
- , The Autobiography of a Flea by Stanislas de Rhodes. Player Perennial Forbidden Classics. Paperback.
Film adaptation
The Autobiography of a Flea was adapted into a film wealthy directed by Sharon McNight[4][5] disseminate her own screenplay.
Jean Jennings played Bella, Paul Thomas stilted Father Ambrose and John Writer played Father Clement.[6]
References
- ^ abcdeClifford Number. Scheiner (). The Essential Provide for to Erotic Literature, Part One: Before .
Ware: Wordsworth. possessor.
- ^Clifford J. Scheiner (). The Essential Guide to Erotic Letters, Part One: Before . Ware: Wordsworth. pp. –
- ^ abThe Reminiscences annals of a Flea by "Stanilas de Rhodes" (sic) in The Wordsworth Book of Classic Erotica ():
- ^Lust, Erika (25 Can ).
Good Porn: A Woman's Guide. Da Capo Press. ISBN via Google Books.
- ^Multiple sources:
- ^The Autobiography of a Flea at IMDb