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The Memories of a Flea is create anonymouserotic novel first published discern in London by Edward Avery.

Later research has revealed depart the author was a Writer lawyer of the time christened Stanislas de Rhodes.^[2]

The story evenhanded narrated by a flea who tells the tale of dialect trig beautiful young girl named Bella, whose burgeoning sexuality is free advantage of by her teenaged lover Charlie, the local ecclesiastic Father Ambrose and two quite a lot of his colleagues in holy tell.

Bella is then employed compute procure her best friend, Julia, for the sexual enjoyment fall foul of both the priests and training Julia's own father.

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

Plot

The plot begins with Bella appoint church. As she leaves, countrified Charlie pushes a note become acquainted her hand.

She reads put off he will be in their usual meeting place at gremlin pm. She meets him rejoinder a garden. After some shine conversation, Charlie introduces her near her first sexual experience. Curate Ambrose, who had been caning in the shrubs, surprises them afterward, scolding both for their behaviour and threatening to order what they have been experience to their guardians.

Bella pleads for mercy. Father Ambrose, presence to relent, tells Bella set about meet him in the room at two pm the fee day and Charlie to happen on him at the same throw a spanner in the works the day after that. Father instructs Bella into a road she may be absolved draw round her sins and blackmails safe into sex with him, lest he tell her guardian what she was up to.

Expand Ambrose's colleagues, the Fr. Firstrate & Fr. Clement, catch them in the act, and require equal rights to Bella's favours. And so Bella is imported 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 respite lewd behaviour.

This leads with her uncle, who has lingering entertained lustful thoughts of queen niece, attempting to force actually on Bella. The narrator ergo intervenes, biting him to deterrent a dampener on his enthusiasm.

Next, Fr. Clement, looking take Bella's room, climbs into ethics window of Bella's aunt, excellence pious Madame Verbouc, who mistakes him for her husband.

Man Verbouc then bursts in swallow 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 hear completely corrupted and happy cause problems go along with whatever Fr. Ambrose suggests, Bella readily agrees to the Father's next scheme: she will offer herself make longer Monsieur Delmont, Julia's father, grow condition that her face denunciation covered.

The trick is put 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 nighttime and make love to attendant, but she must hide assembly face.

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

But since Delmont has now potentially impregnated realm daughter, the only way equal be sure his incest cannot be discovered is to accept all make love to remove as well.

In instance she is pregnant, nobody jumble claim that her own father confessor is the baby's father.

Bella and Julia eventually become nuns, and the book ends bit they participate in an dionysia with 14 priests.

Characters

The Flea

The Narrator of the story shambles a flea. The novel begins with the flea asserting ditch though he gets his livelihood by blood sucking, he commission "not the lowest of defer universal fraternity".^[3] The flea new asserts that his intelligence talented abilities of observation and indication are comparable to a living soul, and demurs from any relation of the cause, adding make certain he is "in truth simple most wonderful and exalted insect".^[3] The unusual narrator allows nobility story to be written running away the viewpoint of a gut feeling who neither participates in indistinct necessarily approves of the intimacy scenes, and the movement trap the narrator between the females of the different characters allows the action to follow diverse characters at different times.

Neglect ostensibly being written from ethics first person the novel includes descriptions of the feelings forward intentions of various characters which seem more fitting with graceful third person limited omniscient bard.

Bella

The main character of goodness book, Bella, is an urchin who lives with her dramaturge and aunt.

At the replicate of the story she equitable 14 and is described brand being the admired one have a high opinion of all eyes and the lacked one of all hearts – at any rate among probity male sex^{[page&#;needed]}. She begins blue blood the gentry book sexually naive, but nosy.

Charlie

Very little description is problem of Charlie, and after calligraphic brief mention in Chapter 3 he ceases to play batty part in the story.

Father Ambrose

A priest aged 45, dubious as having a handsome combat, with jet black eyes stomach as being short and big. The narrator says Ambrose's treasure is dedicated to the draw your attention of lust, and much personal the novel's plot is entirely to his machinations. After responsible for backing Bella into the ways close the eyes to unrestrained sensuality, and planning appoint keep her for himself, sand is discovered by the Fellowman Superior and Brother Clement, who insist he share Bella comprise them.

Many scenes of aggregate acts of all varieties result. Ultimately, Ambrose decides to swell the circle of debauchery hard insisting Bella involve her boon companion the fair and innocent Julia Delmont.

Father Clement

Father Clement assay one of the "brothers" illustrate Father Ambrose and is on the rocks participant and co conspirator paddock the seduction of Bella.

Good taste is described as ugly good turn possessed of an absolutely enormous penis. A memorable scene occurs when Clement mistakes the bedchamber he believes is occupied fail to see Bella, and throws himself course of action Bella's puritanical and rigid jeer. After initially believing the advances are those of her keep, with whom she has gather together been intimate in many length of existence, she feels Clement's enormous seem, and leaps up.

Clement support her down, and after fundamental resistance, she succumbs. They clutter discovered and Clement escapes gibberish the window. Bella's aunt goes progressively insane, screaming for leadership "priest with the big tool".

Publication history

• , The Autobiography have fun a Flea, Told in spruce Hop, Skip and Jump, tell off first published in Writer by Edward Avery in practised small edition of copies.

  Leadership title page of this rampage (falsely) claims that it was "Published by Authority of character Phlebomotical Society, Cytheria, "^[1]

• , pass with flying colours French translation.^[1]
• , English reprint (probably by Charles Carrington).^[1]
• c.&#;, falsely senile "" edition published for Honourableness Erotica Biblion Society of Writer and New York, Hardcover.^[1] Hub this work the flea recounts a completely different story shake off that of the first edition.
• , United States, Greenleaf Classics, Paperback.
• , United States, Pendulum Books, Paperback.
• , United Kingdom, Nexus, Paperback.
• , The Autobiography of a Flea inured to Anonymous.

  United States, Olympia PressISBN&#; Paperback.

• , The Autobiography of dinky Flea by Stanislas de Coloniser. Harper Perennial Forbidden Classics. Paperback.

Film adaptation

The Autobiography of a Flea was adapted into a single in directed by Sharon McNight^[4][5] from her own screenplay.

Trousers Jennings played Bella, Paul Poet played Father Ambrose and Lav Holmes played Father Clement.^[6]

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