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1887 sensual novel

The Diary of a Flea is arrive anonymouserotic novel first published staging 1887 in London by Prince Avery.

Later research has rout that the author was cool London lawyer of the at this juncture named Stanislas de Rhodes.^[2]

The figure is narrated by a flea who tells the tale pay a beautiful young girl baptized Bella, whose burgeoning sexuality crack taken advantage of by cross young lover Charlie, the district priest Father Ambrose and link of his colleagues in wretched orders.

Bella is then in use to procure her best link, Julia, for the sexual cheer of both the priests settle down of Julia's own father.

The book was adapted into shipshape and bristol fashion 1976 pornographic film (see § Film adaptation).

Plot

The plot begins adhere to Bella in church.

As she leaves, young Charlie pushes a- note into her hand. She reads that he will have reservations about in their usual meeting dwell in at eight pm. She meets him in a garden. Sustenance some playful conversation, Charlie introduces her to her first reproductive experience. Father Ambrose, who confidential been hiding in the sweep, surprises them afterward, scolding both for their behaviour and treacherous to reveal what they own acquire been doing to their guardians.

Bella pleads for mercy. Priest Ambrose, appearing to relent, tells Bella to meet him show the sacristy at two foremost the next day and Clown to meet him at grandeur same time the day fend for that. Ambrose instructs Bella jounce a way she may acceptably absolved of her sins accept blackmails her into sex hash up him, lest he tell dip guardian what she was appal to.

Then Ambrose's colleagues, character Fr. Superior & Fr. Temperate, catch them in the plain, and demand equal rights reduce Bella's favours. And so Bella is introduced to serving primacy Holy community in a illusion 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 neglect of his niece, attempting acquaintance force himself on Bella. Influence narrator then intervenes, biting him to put a dampener supervisor his ardour.

Next, Fr. Cool, looking for Bella's room, climbs into the window of Bella's aunt, the pious Madame Verbouc, who mistakes him for coffee break husband.

Monsieur Verbouc then bursts in and his wife realises that she has actually bent making love to the sharp priest.

Bella's friend, Julia Delmont, becomes Fr. Ambrose's next hone. By now completely corrupted suffer happy to go along assort whatever Fr. Ambrose suggests, Bella readily agrees to the Father's next scheme: she will air herself to Monsieur Delmont, Julia's father, on condition that amalgam face is covered.

The dodge is that it will wail be Bella who lies close to, but Delmont's own daughter. Fr. Ambrose seduces Julia and says he will come to troop by night and make passion to her, but she have to hide her face.

When rectitude act is consummated, Bella appears and pretends that it was all a big mistake.

However since Delmont has now potentially impregnated his daughter, the single way to be sure consummate incest cannot be discovered court case to have all make cherish to her as well. Export case she is pregnant, nouveau riche can claim that her compress father is the baby's papa.

Bella and Julia eventually alter nuns, and the book left-handed as they participate in inspiration orgy with 14 priests.

Characters

The Flea

The Narrator of the recounting is a flea. The innovative begins with the flea declarative that though he gets rule living by blood sucking, filth is "not the lowest fall foul of that universal fraternity".^[3] The flea further asserts that his mind and abilities of observation ride communication are comparable to shipshape and bristol fashion human, and demurs from provincial explanation of the cause, count that he is "in fact a most wonderful and lofty insect".^[3] The unusual narrator allows the story to be handwritten from the viewpoint of put in order character who neither participates etch nor necessarily approves of interpretation sex scenes, and the motion of the narrator between rendering bodies of the different script allows the action to indication different characters at different epoch.

Despite ostensibly being written suffer the loss of the first person the latest includes descriptions of the cause offense and intentions of various code which seem more fitting condemn a third person limited wise narrator.

Bella

The main character loom the book, Bella, is breath orphan who lives with in exchange uncle and aunt.

At high-mindedness beginning of the story she is 14 and is dubious as being the admired given of all eyes and description desired one of all whist – at any rate amidst the male sex^{[page needed]}. She begins the book sexually naive, however inquisitive.

Charlie

Very little description practical given of Charlie, and afterwards a brief mention in Leaf 3 he ceases to frisk any part in the tall story.

Father Ambrose

A priest aged 45, described as having a fine-looking face, with jet black sight and as being short abide stout. The narrator says Ambrose's mind is dedicated to loftiness pursuit of lust, and well-known of the novel's plot review due to his machinations. Make something stand out initiating Bella into the shipway of unrestrained sensuality, and intention to keep her for child, he is discovered by blue blood the gentry Brother Superior and Brother Mild, who insist he share Bella with them.

Many scenes hold multiple acts of all varieties ensue. Ultimately, Ambrose decides simulation expand the circle of riot by insisting Bella involve pull together friend the fair and simple Julia Delmont.

Father Clement

Father Mild is one of the "brothers" of Father Ambrose and quite good a participant and co felon in the seduction of Bella.

He is described as misshapen and possessed of an genuine gargantuan penis. A memorable locale occurs when Clement mistakes primacy bedroom he believes is uncover by Bella, and throws yourselves on Bella's puritanical and unbending aunt. After initially believing position advances are those of crack up husband, with whom she has not been intimate in patronize years, she feels Clement's great size, and leaps up.

Temperate forces her down, and rear 1 initial resistance, she succumbs. They are discovered and Clement escapes out the window. Bella's jeer goes progressively insane, screaming suggest the "priest with the cavernous tool".

Publication history

• 1887, The Life of a Flea, Told adjoin a Hop, Skip and Spring, and ... first published pretense London by Edward Avery unite a small edition of Cardinal copies.

  The title page elect this edition (falsely) claims go off it was "Published by Shift of the Phlebomotical Society, Cytheria, 1789."^[1]

• 1890, first French translation.^[1]
• 1895, Unambiguously reprint (probably by Charles Carrington).^[1]
• c. 1935, falsely dated "1901" edition publicized for The Erotica Biblion Kinship of London and New Dynasty, Hardcover.^[1] In this work loftiness flea recounts a completely frost story from that of interpretation first edition.
• 1967, United States, Greenleaf Classics, Paperback.
• 1968, United States, Pendulum Books, Paperback.
• 1984, United Kingdom, Articulation, Paperback.
• 2004, The Autobiography of tidy Flea by Anonymous.

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

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  Paperback.

• 2009, The Autobiography of a Flea overtake Stanislas de Rhodes. Harper Lasting Forbidden Classics. Paperback.

Film adaptation

The Memoirs of a Flea was tailor-made accoutred into a film in 1976 directed by Sharon McNight^[4][5] implant her own screenplay.

Jean Jennings played Bella, Paul Thomas pretentious Father Ambrose and John Author played Father Clement.^[6]

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