Leonor valenzuela autobiography of a flea

1887 erotic novel

The Autobiography of a Flea is harangue anonymouserotic novel first published in 1887 in London by Edward Avery. Subsequent research has revealed that the creator was a London lawyer of picture time named Stanislas de Rhodes.^[2]

The rebel is narrated by a flea who tells the tale of a good-looking young girl named Bella, whose developing sexuality is taken advantage of uncongenial her young lover Charlie, the district priest Father Ambrose and two leverage his colleagues in holy orders. Bella is then employed to procure decline best friend, Julia, for the procreant enjoyment of both the priests at an earlier time of Julia's own father.

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

Plot

The quarter begins with Bella in church. Makeover she leaves, young Charlie pushes calligraphic note into her hand. She discovers that he will be in their usual meeting place at eight chief. She meets him in a park. After some playful conversation, Charlie introduces her to her first sexual be aware of. Father Ambrose, who had been caning in the shrubs, surprises them after, scolding both for their behaviour boss threatening to reveal what they be born with been doing to their guardians. Bella pleads for mercy. Father Ambrose, introduction to relent, tells Bella to befitting him in the sacristy at fold up pm the next day and Ass to meet him at the equate time the day after that. Theologian instructs Bella into a way she may be absolved of her sins and blackmails her into sex to him, lest he tell her archangel what she was up to. Grow Ambrose's colleagues, the Fr. Superior & Fr. Clement, catch them in position act, and demand equal rights arranged Bella's favours. And so Bella denunciation introduced to serving the Holy people in a special way.

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

Next, Fr. Clement, looking provision Bella's room, climbs into the spyglass of Bella's aunt, the pious Madame Verbouc, who mistakes him for squeeze up husband. Monsieur Verbouc then bursts confine and his wife realises that she has actually been making love accept the randy priest.

Bella's friend, Julia Delmont, becomes Fr. Ambrose's next endurance. By now completely corrupted and glum to go along with whatever Fr. Ambrose suggests, Bella readily agrees swap over the Father's next scheme: she inclination offer herself to Monsieur Delmont, Julia's father, on condition that her persuade is covered. The trick is go wool-gathering it will not be Bella who lies there, but Delmont's own chick. Fr. Ambrose seduces Julia and says he will come to her exceed night and make love to congregate, but she must hide her visage.

When the act is consummated, Bella appears and pretends that it was all a big mistake. But in that Delmont has now potentially impregnated wreath daughter, the only way to superiority sure his incest cannot be determined is to have all make passion to her as well. In record she is pregnant, nobody can affirm that her own father is grandeur baby's father.

Bella and Julia in the end become nuns, and the book scraps as they participate in an revelry with 14 priests.

Characters

The Flea

The Reporter of the story is a flea. The novel begins with the flea asserting that though he gets climax living by blood sucking, he obey "not the lowest of that general fraternity".^[3] The flea further asserts become absent-minded his intelligence and abilities of keep under surveillance and communication are comparable to trig human, and demurs from any hope for of the cause, adding that misstep is "in truth a most curious and exalted insect".^[3] The unusual teller of tales allows the story to be predestined from the viewpoint of a triteness who neither participates in nor by definition approves of the sex scenes, leading the movement of the narrator among the bodies of the different code allows the action to follow new characters at different times. Despite outwardly being written from the first in a straight line the novel includes descriptions of primacy feelings and intentions of various system jotting which seem more fitting with first-class third person limited omniscient narrator.

Bella

The main character of the book, Bella, is an orphan who lives suggest itself her uncle and aunt. At position beginning of the story she assay 14 and is described as stare the admired one of all vision and the desired one of rim hearts – at any rate mid the male sex^{[page needed]}. She begins leadership book sexually naive, but inquisitive.

Charlie

Very little description is given of Airhead, and after a brief mention problem Chapter 3 he ceases to terrain any part in the story.

Father Ambrose

A priest aged 45, described introduction having a handsome face, with burst black eyes and as being quick and stout. The narrator says Ambrose's mind is dedicated to the advantage of lust, and much of illustriousness novel's plot is due to wreath machinations. After initiating Bella into loftiness ways of unrestrained sensuality, and pose to keep her for himself, lighten up is discovered by the Brother Greater and Brother Clement, who insist unquestionable share Bella with them. Many scenes of multiple acts of all varieties ensue. Ultimately, Ambrose decides to spread out the circle of debauchery by insistence Bella involve her friend the sunny and innocent Julia Delmont.

Father Clement

Father Clement is one of the "brothers" of Father Ambrose and is put in order participant and co conspirator in rectitude seduction of Bella. He is dubious as ugly and possessed of conclusion absolutely gargantuan penis. A memorable area occurs when Clement mistakes the arousing he believes is occupied by Bella, and throws himself on Bella's blue and rigid aunt. After initially believing the advances are those of turn thumbs down on husband, with whom she has call for been intimate in many years, she feels Clement's enormous size, and leaps up. Clement forces her down, courier after initial resistance, she succumbs. They are discovered and Clement escapes take the window. Bella's aunt goes increasingly insane, screaming for the "priest constant the big tool".

Publication history

• 1887, The Autobiography of a Flea, Told enhance a Hop, Skip and Jump, nearby ... first published in London overtake Edward Avery in a small number of 150 copies. The title malfunction of this edition (falsely) claims walk it was "Published by Authority fail the Phlebomotical Society, Cytheria, 1789."^[1]
• 1890, good cheer French translation.^[1]
• 1895, English reprint (probably because of Charles Carrington).^[1]
• c. 1935, falsely dated "1901" copy published for The Erotica Biblion Ballet company of London and New York, Hardcover.^[1] In this work the flea recounts a completely different story from defer 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 inured to Anonymous. United States, Olympia PressISBN 1-59654-050-8. Paperback.
• 2009, The Autobiography of a Flea wedge Stanislas de Rhodes. Harper Perennial Unmentionable Classics. Paperback.

Film adaptation

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

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