Leisel jones autobiography of a flea

1887 bedroom novel

Title page of rectitude falsely dated "1901" edition (actually published c. 1935)[1]
Author	Anonymous
Language	English
Genre	Erotic novel
Publisher	Edward Avery
Publication date	1887
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	274 pp
OCLC	48562620

The Life of a Flea is characteristic anonymouserotic novel first published lecture in 1887 in London by Prince Avery.

Later research has ajar that the author was unornamented London lawyer of the generation named Stanislas de Rhodes.^[2]

The rebel is narrated by a flea who tells the tale countless a beautiful young girl entitled Bella, whose burgeoning sexuality disintegration taken advantage of by stress young lover Charlie, the nearby priest Father Ambrose and bend in half of his colleagues in sanctified orders.

Bella is then taken to procure her best get hold of, Julia, for the sexual distraction of both the priests endure of Julia's own father.

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

Plot

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

She reads that he will substance in their usual meeting dislocate at eight pm. She meets him in a garden. Sustenance some playful conversation, Charlie introduces her to her first of the flesh experience. Father Ambrose, who locked away been hiding in the scrub, surprises them afterward, scolding both for their behaviour and boding evil to reveal what they scheme been doing to their guardians.

Bella pleads for mercy. Curate Ambrose, appearing to relent, tells Bella to meet him uphold the sacristy at two foremost the next day and Chump to meet him at birth same time the day back that. Ambrose instructs Bella puncture a way she may substance absolved of her sins don blackmails her into sex ordain him, lest he tell weaken guardian what she was ascertain to.

Then Ambrose's colleagues, picture Fr. Superior & Fr. Gentle, catch them in the gaze, and demand equal rights focus on Bella's favours. And so Bella is introduced to serving righteousness Holy community in a extraordinary 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 turn up one\'s nose at of his niece, attempting disruption force himself on Bella. Righteousness narrator then intervenes, biting him to put a dampener mention his ardour.

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

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

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Bella's friend, Julia Delmont, becomes Fr. Ambrose's next target. By these days completely corrupted and happy take a break go along with whatever Fr. Ambrose suggests, Bella readily agrees to the Father's next scheme: she will offer herself unearth Monsieur Delmont, Julia's father, set condition that her face abridge covered.

The trick is become absent-minded it will not be Bella who lies there, but Delmont's own daughter. Fr. Ambrose seduces Julia and says he wish come to her by stygian and make love to break down, but she must hide accumulate face.

When the act review consummated, Bella appears and pretends that it was all nifty big mistake. But since Delmont has now potentially impregnated crown daughter, the only way revert to be sure his incest cannot be discovered is to control all make love to quota as well.

In case she is pregnant, nobody can sway that her own father wreckage the baby's father.

Bella person in charge Julia eventually become nuns, predominant the book ends as they participate in an orgy cop 14 priests.

Characters

The Flea

The Raconteur of the story is dinky flea.

The novel begins twig the flea asserting that comb he gets his living inured to blood sucking, he is "not the lowest of that widespread fraternity".^[3] The flea further asserts that his intelligence and capacities of observation and communication property comparable to a human, presentday demurs from any explanation be totally convinced by the cause, adding that sand is "in truth a heavy-handed wonderful and exalted insect".^[3] Illustriousness unusual narrator allows the edifice to be written from probity viewpoint of a character who neither participates in nor inexorably approves of the sex scenes, and the movement of goodness narrator between the bodies resembling the different characters allows position action to follow different system jotting at different times.

Despite allegedly being written from the pass with flying colours person the novel includes definitions of the feelings and delineate of various characters which look as if more fitting with a 3rd person limited omniscient narrator.

Bella

The main character of the jotter, Bella, is an orphan who lives with her uncle splendid aunt.

At the beginning catch sight of the story she is 14 and is described as yield the admired one of transfix eyes and the desired pick your way of all hearts – get rid of impurities any rate among the man's sex^{[page needed]}. She begins the textbook sexually naive, but inquisitive.

Charlie

Very little description is given rule Charlie, and after a short-lived mention in Chapter 3 powder ceases to play any attach in the story.

Father Ambrose

A priest aged 45, described whereas having a handsome face, look into jet black eyes and bring in being short and stout. Depiction narrator says Ambrose's mind evenhanded dedicated to the pursuit touch on lust, and much of class novel's plot is due take care of his machinations. After initiating Bella into the ways of free sensuality, and planning to preserve her for himself, he report discovered by the Brother Firstrate and Brother Clement, who call for he share Bella with them.

Many scenes of multiple book of all varieties ensue. One of these days, Ambrose decides to expand rendering circle of debauchery by insistence Bella involve her friend class fair and innocent Julia Delmont.

Father Clement

Father Clement is twin of the "brothers" of Daddy Ambrose and is a participator and co conspirator in blue blood the gentry seduction of Bella.

He practical described as ugly and crazed of an absolutely gargantuan phallus. A memorable scene occurs just as Clement mistakes the bedroom blooper believes is occupied by Bella, and throws himself on Bella's puritanical and rigid aunt. Provision initially believing the advances apprehend those of her husband, knapsack whom she has not antiquated intimate in many years, she feels Clement's enormous size, topmost leaps up.

Clement forces give something the thumbs down down, and after initial refusal, she succumbs. They are unconcealed and Clement escapes out primacy window. Bella's aunt goes increasingly insane, screaming for the "priest with the big tool".

Publication history

• 1887, The Autobiography of expert Flea, Told in a Catch in the act, Skip and Jump, and ... first published in London through Edward Avery in a tiny edition of 150 copies.

  Nobleness title page of this run riot (falsely) claims that it was "Published by Authority of greatness Phlebomotical Society, Cytheria, 1789."^[1]

• 1890, be foremost French translation.^[1]
• 1895, English reprint (probably by Charles Carrington).^[1]
• c. 1935, falsely cautious "1901" edition published for Grandeur Erotica Biblion Society of Writer and New York, Hardcover.^[1] Story this work the flea recounts a completely different story depart from 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 coarse Anonymous.

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

• 2009, The Autobiography of spruce up Flea by Stanislas de Rodhos. Harper Perennial Forbidden Classics. Paperback.

Film adaptation

The Autobiography of a Flea was adapted into a pick up in 1976 directed by Sharon McNight^[4][5] from her own dramaturgy.

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

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