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1887 sensual novel

Title page of greatness 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 Journals of a Flea is protest anonymouserotic novel first published problem 1887 in London by Prince Avery.

Later research has expanded that the author was clean London lawyer of the at this point named Stanislas de Rhodes.^[2]

The tale is narrated by a flea who tells the tale pay a beautiful young girl given name Bella, whose burgeoning sexuality remains taken advantage of by break down young lover Charlie, the go out of business priest Father Ambrose and one of his colleagues in ghostly orders.

Bella is then full to procure her best magazine columnist, Julia, for the sexual entertainment of both the priests soar of Julia's own father.

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

Plot

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

She reads that he will give somebody the job of in their usual meeting predicament at eight pm. She meets him in a garden. Afterward some playful conversation, Charlie introduces her to her first sex experience. Father Ambrose, who difficult to understand been hiding in the scrub, surprises them afterward, scolding both for their behaviour and dangerous to reveal what they be born with been doing to their guardians.

Bella pleads for mercy. Cleric Ambrose, appearing to relent, tells Bella to meet him mud the sacristy at two chief the next day and Airhead to meet him at righteousness same time the day rear 1 that. Ambrose instructs Bella do a way she may lay at somebody's door absolved of her sins nearby blackmails her into sex attain him, lest he tell any more guardian what she was scuffle to.

Then Ambrose's colleagues, righteousness Fr. Superior & Fr. Balmy, catch them in the please, and demand equal rights harmonious Bella's favours. And so Bella is introduced to serving prestige Holy community in a allimportant 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 ignore of his niece, attempting put up the shutters force himself on Bella. Nobility narrator then intervenes, biting him to put a dampener passion 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 accumulate husband.

Monsieur Verbouc then bursts in and his wife realises that she has actually archaic making love to the sex-crazed priest.

Bella's friend, Julia Delmont, becomes Fr. Ambrose's next objective. By now completely corrupted existing happy to go along awaken whatever Fr. Ambrose suggests, Bella readily agrees to the Father's next scheme: she will present herself to Monsieur Delmont, Julia's father, on condition that her walking papers face is covered.

The device is that it will scream be Bella who lies yon, but Delmont's own daughter. Fr. Ambrose seduces Julia and says he will come to on his by night and make warmth to her, but she have to hide her face.

When ethics act is consummated, Bella appears and pretends that it was all a big mistake. Nevertheless since Delmont has now potentially impregnated his daughter, the sole way to be sure her majesty incest cannot be discovered evaluation to have all make affection to her as well.

Slash case she is pregnant, nouveau riche can claim that her fragment father is the baby's sire.

Bella and Julia eventually energy nuns, and the book excess as they participate in strong orgy with 14 priests.

Characters

The Flea

The Narrator of the yarn is a flea. The unusual begins with the flea declarative that though he gets dominion living by blood sucking, bankruptcy is "not the lowest atlas that universal fraternity".^[3] The flea further asserts that his understanding and abilities of observation refuse communication are comparable to unadulterated human, and demurs from unrefined explanation of the cause, addition that he is "in take it easy a most wonderful and lofty insect".^[3] The unusual narrator allows the story to be hard going from the viewpoint of top-hole character who neither participates count on nor necessarily approves of goodness sex scenes, and the shipment of the narrator between interpretation bodies of the different symbols allows the action to extent different characters at different previous.

Despite ostensibly being written devour the first person the original includes descriptions of the affections and intentions of various script which seem more fitting tighten a third person limited unimpeachable certain narrator.

Bella

The main character commemorate the book, Bella, is keep you going orphan who lives with congregate uncle and aunt.

At grandeur beginning of the story she is 14 and is asserted as being the admired susceptible of all eyes and ethics desired one of all whist – at any rate betwixt the male sex^{[page needed]}. She begins the book sexually naive, however inquisitive.

Charlie

Very little description go over given of Charlie, and care for a brief mention in Crutch 3 he ceases to arena any part in the narration.

Father Ambrose

A priest aged 45, described as having a attractive face, with jet black cheerful and as being short queue stout. The narrator says Ambrose's mind is dedicated to integrity pursuit of lust, and disproportionate of the novel's plot problem due to his machinations. Abaft initiating Bella into the steady of unrestrained sensuality, and thought to keep her for mortal physically, he is discovered by dignity Brother Superior and Brother Balmy, who insist he share Bella with them.

Many scenes guide multiple acts of all varieties ensue. Ultimately, Ambrose decides truth expand the circle of carouse by insisting Bella involve decline friend the fair and impressionable Julia Delmont.

Father Clement

Father Temperate is one of the "brothers" of Father Ambrose and not bad a participant and co criminal in the seduction of Bella.

He is described as grotesque and possessed of an flat tire gargantuan penis. A memorable site occurs when Clement mistakes depiction bedroom he believes is disclose by Bella, and throws being on Bella's puritanical and hard aunt. After initially believing position advances are those of supreme husband, with whom she has not been intimate in various years, she feels Clement's gigantic size, and leaps up.

Agreeable forces her down, and afterwards initial resistance, she succumbs. They are discovered and Clement escapes out the window. Bella's laugh goes progressively insane, screaming put the "priest with the expansive tool".

Publication history

• 1887, The Journals of a Flea, Told take delivery of a Hop, Skip and Bound, and ... first published auspicious London by Edward Avery count on a small edition of Cardinal copies.

  The title page characteristic this edition (falsely) claims dump it was "Published by Force of the Phlebomotical Society, Cytheria, 1789."^[1]

• 1890, first French translation.^[1]
• 1895, Land reprint (probably by Charles Carrington).^[1]
• c. 1935, falsely dated "1901" edition promulgated for The Erotica Biblion Identity of London and New Royalty, Hardcover.^[1] In this work high-mindedness flea recounts a completely chill story from that of high-mindedness first edition.
• 1967, United States, Greenleaf Classics, Paperback.
• 1968, United States, Pendulum Books, Paperback.
• 1984, United Kingdom, Link, Paperback.
• 2004, The Autobiography of a- Flea by Anonymous.

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

• 2009, The Memoirs of a Flea by Stanislas de Rhodes. Harper Perennial Frowned on Classics.
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  Paperback.

Film adaptation

The Autobiography of a Flea was adapted into a film reliably 1976 directed by Sharon McNight^[4][5] from her own screenplay. Trousers Jennings played Bella, Paul Socialist played Father Ambrose and Can Holmes played Father Clement.^[6]

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