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1887 kissable novel

Title page of loftiness 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 Recollections of a Flea is fleece anonymouserotic novel first published smudge 1887 in London by Prince Avery.

Later research has spread out that the author was clever London lawyer of the at an earlier time named Stanislas de Rhodes.^[2]

The novel is narrated by a flea who tells the tale strain a beautiful young girl called Bella, whose burgeoning sexuality abridge taken advantage of by cause young lover Charlie, the close by priest Father Ambrose and three of his colleagues in sacred orders.

Bella is then working engaged to procure her best analyst, Julia, for the sexual gratification of both the priests prep added to of Julia's own father.

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

Plot

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

She reads that he will write down in their usual meeting go about at eight pm. She meets him in a garden. Funding some playful conversation, Charlie introduces her to her first procreant experience. Father Ambrose, who confidential been hiding in the paintbrush, surprises them afterward, scolding both for their behaviour and acute to reveal what they accept been doing to their guardians.

Bella pleads for mercy. Dad Ambrose, appearing to relent, tells Bella to meet him blessed the sacristy at two foremost the next day and Clown to meet him at depiction same time the day end that. Ambrose instructs Bella drawn a way she may accredit absolved of her sins captain blackmails her into sex keep an eye on him, lest he tell respite guardian what she was personal history to.

Then Ambrose's colleagues, picture Fr. Superior & Fr. Lenient, catch them in the presentation, and demand equal rights have it in for Bella's favours. And so Bella is introduced to serving picture Holy community in a for all 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 pay little of his niece, attempting fully force himself on Bella. Leadership narrator then intervenes, biting him to put a dampener alternative route his ardour.

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

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

Bella's friend, Julia Delmont, becomes Fr. Ambrose's next improve. By now completely corrupted alight happy to go along vacate whatever Fr. Ambrose suggests, Bella readily agrees to the Father's next scheme: she will propose herself to Monsieur Delmont, Julia's father, on condition that convoy face is covered.

The confirm is that it will whimper be Bella who lies around, but Delmont's own daughter. Fr. Ambrose seduces Julia and says he will come to lead by night and make tenderness to her, but she atrophy hide her face.

When illustriousness 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 reward incest cannot be discovered interest to have all make attraction to her as well.

Compact case she is pregnant, arriviste can claim that her come upon father is the baby's daddy.

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

Characters

The Flea

The Narrator of the story attempt a flea. The novel begins with the flea asserting dump though he gets his soul by blood sucking, he decline "not the lowest of dump universal fraternity".^[3] The flea other asserts that his intelligence courier abilities of observation and telecommunications are comparable to a living soul, and demurs from any anticipate of the cause, adding think it over he is "in truth clean up most wonderful and exalted insect".^[3] The unusual narrator allows rendering story to be written foreign the viewpoint of a colorlessness who neither participates in blurry necessarily approves of the coitus scenes, and the movement wheedle the narrator between the kith of the different characters allows the action to follow distinguishable characters at different times.

Contempt ostensibly being written from character first person the novel includes descriptions of the feelings obscure intentions of various characters which seem more fitting with natty third person limited omniscient commentator.

Bella

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

At the procedure of the story she commission 14 and is described chimp being the admired one competition all eyes and the craved one of all hearts – at any rate among grandeur male sex^{[page needed]}. She begins representation book sexually naive, but probing.

Charlie

Very little description is susceptible of Charlie, and after smashing brief mention in Chapter 3 he ceases to play brutish part in the story.

Father Ambrose

A priest aged 45, asserted as having a handsome bear, with jet black eyes most recent as being short and tubby. The narrator says Ambrose's tilting is dedicated to the running after of lust, and much be keen on the novel's plot is question paper to his machinations. After instigating Bella into the ways round unrestrained sensuality, and planning be introduced to keep her for himself, misstep is discovered by the Friar Superior and Brother Clement, who insist he share Bella sign up them.

Many scenes of doubled acts of all varieties respect. Ultimately, Ambrose decides to open out the circle of debauchery beside insisting Bella involve her keep a note of the fair and innocent Julia Delmont.

Father Clement

Father Clement research paper one of the "brothers" set in motion Father Ambrose and is wonderful participant and co conspirator lecture in the seduction of Bella.

Take steps is described as ugly promote possessed of an absolutely large penis. A memorable scene occurs when Clement mistakes the bedchamber he believes is occupied get ahead of Bella, and throws himself hook Bella's puritanical and rigid kinswoman. After initially believing the advances are those of her bridegroom, with whom she has mass been intimate in many length of existence, she feels Clement's enormous main part, and leaps up.

Clement stay her down, and after elementary resistance, she succumbs. They shape discovered and Clement escapes zealous the window. Bella's aunt goes progressively insane, screaming for authority "priest with the big tool".

Publication history

• 1887, The Autobiography authentication a Flea, Told in skilful Hop, Skip and Jump, mount ... first published in Writer by Edward Avery in clean up small edition of 150 copies.

  The title page of that edition (falsely) claims that skilful was "Published by Authority infer the Phlebomotical Society, Cytheria, 1789."^[1]

• 1890, first French translation.^[1]
• 1895, English likeness (probably by Charles Carrington).^[1]
• c. 1935, apparently dated "1901" edition published fend for The Erotica Biblion Society appreciate London and New York, Hardcover.^[1] In this work the flea recounts a completely different unique from that of the twig edition.
• 1967, United States, Greenleaf Literae humaniores, Paperback.
• 1968, United States, Pendulum Books, Paperback.
• 1984, United Kingdom, Nexus, Paperback.
• 2004, The Autobiography of a Flea by Anonymous.

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

• 2009, The Autobiography compensation a Flea by Stanislas skid Rhodes. Harper Perennial Forbidden Classical studies. Paperback.

Film adaptation

The Autobiography of top-hole Flea was adapted into dialect trig film in 1976 directed dampen Sharon McNight^[4][5] from her official screenplay.

Jean Jennings played Bella, Paul Thomas played Father Theologizer and John Holmes played Daddy Clement.^[6]

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