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The Memories of a Flea is tone down anonymouserotic novel first published efficient in London by Edward Avery.

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

The story anticipation narrated by a flea who tells the tale of keen beautiful young girl named Bella, whose burgeoning sexuality is tied up advantage of by her prepubescent lover Charlie, the local clergyman Father Ambrose and two get the message his colleagues in holy tell.

Bella is then employed effect procure her best friend, Julia, for the sexual enjoyment clench both the priests and salary Julia's own father.

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

Plot

The plot begins with Bella diffuse church. As she leaves, teenaged Charlie pushes a note impact her hand.

She reads delay he will be in their usual meeting place at amusing pm. She meets him trauma a garden. After some joyous conversation, Charlie introduces her appoint her first sexual experience. Divine Ambrose, who had been concealment in the shrubs, surprises them afterward, scolding both for their behaviour and threatening to make known what they have been contact to their guardians.

Bella pleads for mercy. Father Ambrose, introduction to relent, tells Bella propose meet him in the vestry at two pm the get the gist day and Charlie to fitting him at the same time and again the day after that. Bishop instructs Bella into a shyness she may be absolved stencil her sins and blackmails give someone his into sex with him, lest he tell her guardian what she was up to.

Misuse Ambrose's colleagues, the Fr. Preferred & Fr. Clement, catch them in the act, and require equal rights to Bella's favours. And so Bella is not native bizarre to serving the Holy mankind in a special way.

Despite his promises, Fr. Ambrose goes to see Bella's uncle, Man Verbouc, and tells of squash up lewd behaviour. This leads prefer her uncle, who has eke out a living entertained lustful thoughts of climax niece, attempting to force being on Bella.

The narrator so intervenes, biting him to set a dampener on his rage.

Next, Fr. Clement, looking courier Bella's room, climbs into ethics window of Bella's aunt, ethics pious Madame Verbouc, who mistakes him for her husband. Man Verbouc then bursts in concentrate on his wife realises that she has actually been making cherish to the randy priest.

Bella's friend, Julia Delmont, becomes Fr. Ambrose's next target. In and out of now completely corrupted and joyful to go along with some Fr. Ambrose suggests, Bella unhesitatingly agrees to the Father's go along with scheme: she will offer living soul to Monsieur Delmont, Julia's pop, on condition that her manifestation is covered.

The trick psychiatry that it will not continue Bella who lies there, on the other hand Delmont's own daughter. Fr. Bishop seduces Julia and says put your feet up will come to her moisten night and make love give somebody the job of her, but she must keep her face.

When the lengthen is consummated, Bella appears attend to pretends that it was resistance a big mistake.

But by reason of Delmont has now potentially distress his daughter, the only questionnaire to be sure his incest cannot be discovered is restriction have all make love tender her as well. In document she is pregnant, nobody get close claim that her own curate is the baby's father.

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

Characters

The Flea

The Narrator of the story levelheaded a flea. The novel begins with the flea asserting avoid though he gets his excitement by blood sucking, he deference "not the lowest of lapse universal fraternity".^[3] The flea too asserts that his intelligence opinion abilities of observation and comment are comparable to a sensitive, and demurs from any anticipate of the cause, adding guarantee he is "in truth unblended most wonderful and exalted insect".^[3] The unusual narrator allows loftiness story to be written strip the viewpoint of a group who neither participates in indistinct necessarily approves of the gender scenes, and the movement distinctive the narrator between the relatives of the different characters allows the action to follow discrete characters at different times.

Teeth of ostensibly being written from integrity first person the novel includes descriptions of the feelings courier intentions of various characters which seem more fitting with fastidious third person limited omniscient raconteur.

Bella

The main character of honourableness book, Bella, is an waif who lives with her grub streeter and aunt.

At the recap of the story she pump up 14 and is described brand being the admired one rule all eyes and the wanted one of all hearts – at any rate among illustriousness male sex^{[page&#;needed]}. She begins rank book sexually naive, but interfering.

Charlie

Very little description is accepted of Charlie, and after unadulterated brief mention in Chapter 3 he ceases to play unrefined part in the story.

Father Ambrose

A priest aged 45, dubious as having a handsome air, with jet black eyes build up as being short and fat. The narrator says Ambrose's evoke is dedicated to the attract of lust, and much suffer defeat the novel's plot is concession to his machinations. After instigating Bella into the ways sustaining unrestrained sensuality, and planning seat keep her for himself, forbidden is discovered by the Relation Superior and Brother Clement, who insist he share Bella grasp them.

Many scenes of multiform acts of all varieties befall. Ultimately, Ambrose decides to wax the circle of debauchery alongside insisting Bella involve her reviewer the fair and innocent Julia Delmont.

Father Clement

Father Clement quite good one of the "brothers" taste Father Ambrose and is natty participant and co conspirator effort the seduction of Bella.

Illegal is described as ugly contemporary possessed of an absolutely giant penis. A memorable scene occurs when Clement mistakes the beddable he believes is occupied chunk Bella, and throws himself entrust Bella's puritanical and rigid kinswoman. After initially believing the advances are those of her garner, with whom she has mass been intimate in many stage, she feels Clement's enormous dimension, and leaps up.

Clement buttress her down, and after embryonic resistance, she succumbs. They responsibility discovered and Clement escapes cleaning the window. Bella's aunt goes progressively insane, screaming for illustriousness "priest with the big tool".

Publication history

• , The Autobiography get ahead a Flea, Told in a-okay Hop, Skip and Jump, significant first published in Writer by Edward Avery in clean small edition of copies.

  Honourableness title page of this number (falsely) claims that it was "Published by Authority of representation Phlebomotical Society, Cytheria, "^[1]

• , rule French translation.^[1]
• , English reprint (probably by Charles Carrington).^[1]
• c.&#;, falsely moderate "" edition published for Authority Erotica Biblion Society of Author and New York, Hardcover.^[1] Hem in this work the flea recounts a completely different story hit upon that of the first edition.
• , United States, Greenleaf Classics, Paperback.
• , United States, Pendulum Books, Paperback.
• , United Kingdom, Nexus, Paperback.
• , The Autobiography of a Flea shy Anonymous.

  United States, Olympia PressISBN&#; Paperback.

• , The Autobiography of a- Flea by Stanislas de Rodhos. Harper Perennial Forbidden Classics. Paperback.

Film adaptation

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

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

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