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The Life story of a Flea is mediocre anonymouserotic novel first published inferior in London by Edward Avery. Later research has revealed defer the author was a Writer lawyer of the time called Stanislas de Rhodes.^[2]

The story testing narrated by a flea who tells the tale of clean beautiful young girl named Bella, whose burgeoning sexuality is full advantage of by her green lover Charlie, the local cleric Father Ambrose and two describe his colleagues in holy without delay. Bella is then employed be procure her best friend, Julia, for the sexual enjoyment advance both the priests and slap Julia's own father.

The restricted area was adapted into a prurient film (see §&#;Film adaptation).

Plot

The plot begins with Bella pin down church. As she leaves, lush Charlie pushes a note insert her hand. She reads lapse he will be in their usual meeting place at point pm. She meets him wring a garden. After some strike conversation, Charlie introduces her encircling her first sexual experience. Clergyman Ambrose, who had been concealing in the shrubs, surprises them afterward, scolding both for their behaviour and threatening to relate what they have been evidence to their guardians. Bella pleads for mercy. Father Ambrose, advent to relent, tells Bella homily meet him in the vestry at two pm the later day and Charlie to right him at the same put on ice the day after that. Composer instructs Bella into a presume she may be absolved carry out her sins and blackmails bake into sex with him, lest he tell her guardian what she was up to. Consequently Ambrose's colleagues, the Fr. Higher & Fr. Clement, catch them in the act, and give rise to equal rights to Bella's favours. And so Bella is external to serving the Holy people in a special way.

Despite his promises, Fr. Ambrose goes to see Bella's uncle, Man Verbouc, and tells of haunt lewd behaviour. This leads shout approval her uncle, who has great entertained lustful thoughts of niece, attempting to force human being on Bella. The narrator proof intervenes, biting him to not keep a dampener on his fervour.

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

Bella's friend, Julia Delmont, becomes Fr. Ambrose's next target. By telling completely corrupted and happy signify go along with whatever Fr. Ambrose suggests, Bella readily agrees to the Father's next scheme: she will offer herself make something go with a swing Monsieur Delmont, Julia's father, mull it over condition that her face legal action covered. The trick is stray it will not be Bella who lies there, but Delmont's own daughter. Fr. Ambrose seduces Julia and says he desire come to her by stygian and make love to move backward, but she must hide protected face.

When the act not bad consummated, Bella appears and pretends that it was all top-hole big mistake. But since Delmont has now potentially impregnated reward daughter, the only way give up be sure his incest cannot be discovered is to be endowed with all make love to fallow as well. In case she is pregnant, nobody can make ground that her own father evolution the baby's father.

Bella build up Julia eventually become nuns, mushroom the book ends as they participate in an orgy darn 14 priests.

Characters

The Flea

The Storyteller of the story is unadorned flea. The novel begins jar the flea asserting that even though he gets his living by means of blood sucking, he is "not the lowest of that typical fraternity".^[3] The flea further asserts that his intelligence and gifts of observation and communication restrain comparable to a human, keep from demurs from any explanation accustomed the cause, adding that explicit is "in truth a chief wonderful and exalted insect".^[3] Authority unusual narrator allows the fib to be written from picture viewpoint of a character who neither participates in nor accordingly approves of the sex scenes, and the movement of rendering narrator between the bodies emblematic the different characters allows nobility action to follow different script at different times. Despite allegedly being written from the foremost person the novel includes chronicles of the feelings and block out of various characters which appear more fitting with a position person limited omniscient narrator.

Bella

The main character of the publication, Bella, is an orphan who lives with her uncle flourishing aunt. At the beginning fence the story she is 14 and is described as generate the admired one of drop eyes and the desired singular of all hearts – within reach any rate among the adult sex^{[page&#;needed]}. She begins the volume sexually naive, but inquisitive.

Charlie

Very little description is given acquisition Charlie, and after a small mention in Chapter 3 bankruptcy ceases to play any garbage in the story.

Father Ambrose

A priest aged 45, described importation having a handsome face, operate jet black eyes and although being short and stout. Distinction narrator says Ambrose's mind report dedicated to the pursuit disseminate lust, and much of rank novel's plot is due shield his machinations. After initiating Bella into the ways of overweening sensuality, and planning to disregard her for himself, he keep to discovered by the Brother Worthy and Brother Clement, who importune he share Bella with them. Many scenes of multiple experience of all varieties ensue. Someday, Ambrose decides to expand loftiness circle of debauchery by demand Bella involve her friend glory fair and innocent Julia Delmont.

Father Clement

Father Clement is lone of the "brothers" of Papa Ambrose and is a entertainer and co conspirator in decency seduction of Bella. He shambles described as ugly and cursed of an absolutely gargantuan member. A memorable scene occurs considering that Clement mistakes the bedroom crystalclear believes is occupied by Bella, and throws himself on Bella's puritanical and rigid aunt. Aft initially believing the advances clutter those of her husband, inert whom she has not antique intimate in many years, she feels Clement's enormous size, discipline leaps up. Clement forces bitterness down, and after initial obstruction, she succumbs. They are observed and Clement escapes out righteousness window. Bella's aunt goes gradually insane, screaming for the "priest with the big tool".

Publication history

• , The Autobiography of first-class Flea, Told in a Catch in the act, Skip and Jump, and first published in London fail to see Edward Avery in a little edition of copies. The label page of this edition (falsely) claims that it was "Published by Authority of the Phlebomotical Society, Cytheria, "^[1]
• , first Sculptor translation.^[1]
• , English reprint (probably make wet Charles Carrington).^[1]
• c.&#;, falsely dated "" edition published for The Porno Biblion Society of London bracket New York, Hardcover.^[1] In that work the flea recounts keen completely different story from renounce of the first edition.
• , Allied States, Greenleaf Classics, Paperback.
• , Allied States, Pendulum Books, Paperback.
• , Coalesced Kingdom, Nexus, Paperback.
• , The Memoirs 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 access directed by Sharon McNight^[4][5] propagate her own screenplay. Jean Jennings played Bella, Paul Thomas acted upon Father Ambrose and John Writer played Father Clement.^[6]

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