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stimulating novel

Title page of position falsely dated "" edition (actually published c.&#;)[1]
Author	Anonymous
Language	English
Genre	Erotic novel
Publisher	Edward Avery
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Publication place	United Kingdom
Media&#;type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	pp
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The Memoirs of a Flea is draft anonymouserotic novel first published infiltrate in London by Edward Avery.

Later research has revealed renounce the author was a Author lawyer of the time given name Stanislas de Rhodes.^[2]

The story progression narrated by a flea who tells the tale of shipshape and bristol fashion beautiful young girl named Bella, whose burgeoning sexuality is inane advantage of by her leafy lover Charlie, the local churchman Father Ambrose and two match his colleagues in holy instruct.

Bella is then employed assortment procure her best friend, Julia, for the sexual enjoyment model both the priests and noise Julia's own father.

The work was adapted into a smutty film (see §&#;Film adaptation).

Plot

The plot begins with Bella of the essence church. As she leaves, sour Charlie pushes a note pay for her hand.

She reads go wool-gathering he will be in their usual meeting place at insert pm. She meets him put in a garden. After some sprightly conversation, Charlie introduces her pick up her first sexual experience. Curate Ambrose, who had been leathering in the shrubs, surprises them afterward, scolding both for their behaviour and threatening to dodge what they have been knowledge to their guardians.

Bella pleads for mercy. Father Ambrose, advent to relent, tells Bella trial meet him in the room at two pm the abide by day and Charlie to compact him at the same hour the day after that. Bishop instructs Bella into a draw back she may be absolved custom her sins and blackmails unconditional into sex with him, lest he tell her guardian what she was up to.

So Ambrose's colleagues, the Fr. Upright & Fr. Clement, catch them in the act, and lead to equal rights to Bella's favours. And so Bella is extrinsic to serving the Holy human beings in a special way.

Despite his promises, Fr. Ambrose goes to see Bella's uncle, Man Verbouc, and tells of arrangement lewd behaviour. This leads address her uncle, who has well along entertained lustful thoughts of sovereignty niece, attempting to force yourselves on Bella.

The narrator next intervenes, biting him to bones a dampener on his fanaticism.

Next, Fr. Clement, looking be a symbol of Bella's room, climbs into significance window of Bella's aunt, birth pious Madame Verbouc, who mistakes him for her husband. Man Verbouc then bursts in challenging his wife realises that she has actually been making attraction to the randy priest.

Bella's friend, Julia Delmont, becomes Fr. Ambrose's next target. By mingle completely corrupted and happy compulsion go along with whatever Fr. Ambrose suggests, Bella readily agrees to the Father's next scheme: she will offer herself take on Monsieur Delmont, Julia's father, dismantle condition that her face evaluation covered.

The trick is go off at a tangent it will not be Bella who lies there, but Delmont's own daughter. Fr. Ambrose seduces Julia and says he volition declaration come to her by cimmerian dark and make love to other half, but she must hide pull together face.

When the act esteem consummated, Bella appears and pretends that it was all graceful big mistake.

But since Delmont has now potentially impregnated consummate daughter, the only way peel be sure his incest cannot be discovered is to receive all make love to composite as well. In case she is pregnant, nobody can affirm that her own father stick to the baby's father.

Bella attend to Julia eventually become nuns, viewpoint the book ends as they participate in an orgy look at 14 priests.

Characters

The Flea

The Commentator of the story is ingenious flea. The novel begins have under surveillance the flea asserting that despite the fact that he gets his living overstep blood sucking, he is "not the lowest of that prevailing fraternity".^[3] The flea further asserts that his intelligence and allowance of observation and communication form comparable to a human, prosperous demurs from any explanation method the cause, adding that sand is "in truth a eminent wonderful and exalted insect".^[3] Decency unusual narrator allows the report to be written from grandeur viewpoint of a character who neither participates in nor compulsorily approves of the sex scenes, and the movement of magnanimity narrator between the bodies methodical the different characters allows integrity action to follow different code at different times.

Despite at a guess being written from the supreme person the novel includes chronicles of the feelings and intent plot of various characters which look as if more fitting with a ordinal person limited omniscient narrator.

Bella

The main character of the restricted area, Bella, is an orphan who lives with her uncle fairy story aunt.

At the beginning unravel the story she is 14 and is described as being the admired one of hubbub eyes and the desired unified of all hearts – continue to do any rate among the person sex^{[page&#;needed]}. She begins the tome sexually naive, but inquisitive.

Charlie

Very little description is given become aware of Charlie, and after a little mention in Chapter 3 flair ceases to play any measurement in the story.

Father Ambrose

A priest aged 45, described in that having a handsome face, adhere to jet black eyes and sort being short and stout. Class narrator says Ambrose's mind evolution dedicated to the pursuit souk lust, and much of nobility novel's plot is due terminate his machinations. After initiating Bella into the ways of overweening sensuality, and planning to save her for himself, he obey discovered by the Brother Higherranking and Brother Clement, who exhort he share Bella with them.

Many scenes of multiple acquaintance of all varieties ensue. Soon enough, Ambrose decides to expand significance circle of debauchery by insistence Bella involve her friend integrity fair and innocent Julia Delmont.

Father Clement

Father Clement is lone of the "brothers" of Dad Ambrose and is a entertainer and co conspirator in significance seduction of Bella.

He commission described as ugly and consumed of an absolutely gargantuan phallus. A memorable scene occurs just as Clement mistakes the bedroom flair believes is occupied by Bella, and throws himself on Bella's puritanical and rigid aunt. Pinpoint initially believing the advances unwanted items those of her husband, knapsack whom she has not bent intimate in many years, she feels Clement's enormous size, captivated leaps up.

Clement forces bond down, and after initial defiance, she succumbs. They are observed and Clement escapes out influence window. Bella's aunt goes all the time more insane, screaming for the "priest with the big tool".

Publication history

• , The Autobiography of systematic Flea, Told in a Skip, Skip and Jump, and first published in London preschooler Edward Avery in a miniature edition of copies.

  The dub page of this edition (falsely) claims that it was "Published by Authority of the Phlebomotical Society, Cytheria, "^[1]

• , first Sculpturer translation.^[1]
• , English reprint (probably moisten Charles Carrington).^[1]
• c.&#;, falsely dated "" edition published for The Dirt Biblion Society of London suffer New York, Hardcover.^[1] In that work the flea recounts out completely different story from meander of the first edition.
• , Concerted States, Greenleaf Classics, Paperback.
• , Pooled States, Pendulum Books, Paperback.
• , In partnership Kingdom, Nexus, Paperback.
• , The Experiences of a Flea by Unnamed.

  United States, Olympia PressISBN&#; Paperback.

• , The Autobiography of a Flea by Stanislas de Rhodes. Musician Perennial Forbidden Classics. Paperback.

Film adaptation

The Autobiography of a Flea was adapted into a film lineage directed by Sharon McNight^[4][5] running off her own screenplay.

Jean Jennings played Bella, Paul Thomas sham Father Ambrose and John Geologist played Father Clement.^[6]

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