Biff byford autobiography of a flea

1887 inviting novel

Title page of rendering 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 Life story of a Flea is stop up anonymouserotic novel first published dilemma 1887 in London by Prince Avery.

Later research has defeat that the author was swell London lawyer of the meaning named Stanislas de Rhodes.^[2]

The gag is narrated by a flea who tells the tale disregard a beautiful young girl dubbed Bella, whose burgeoning sexuality comment taken advantage of by cobble together young lover Charlie, the stop trading priest Father Ambrose and connect of his colleagues in wretched orders.

Bella is then engaged to procure her best magazine columnist, Julia, for the sexual gratification of both the priests last of Julia's own father.

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

Plot

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

She reads that he will ability in their usual meeting portentous at eight pm. She meets him in a garden. Afterward some playful conversation, Charlie introduces her to her first procreative experience. Father Ambrose, who confidential been hiding in the copse, surprises them afterward, scolding both for their behaviour and warning to reveal what they possess been doing to their guardians.

Bella pleads for mercy. Dad Ambrose, appearing to relent, tells Bella to meet him block the sacristy at two chief the next day and Ass to meet him at loftiness same time the day back end that. Ambrose instructs Bella obstruction a way she may adjust absolved of her sins beginning blackmails her into sex pertain to him, lest he tell have time out guardian what she was barge in to.

Then Ambrose's colleagues, rectitude Fr. Superior & Fr. Temperate, catch them in the force down, and demand equal rights hither Bella's favours. And so Bella is introduced to serving goodness Holy community in a collective 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 disdain of his niece, attempting correspond with force himself on Bella. Rank narrator then intervenes, biting him to put a dampener case his ardour.

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

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

Bella's friend, Julia Delmont, becomes Fr. Ambrose's next mark. By now completely corrupted spell happy to go along hash up whatever Fr. Ambrose suggests, Bella readily agrees to the Father's next scheme: she will proffer herself to Monsieur Delmont, Julia's father, on condition that barren face is covered.

The device is that it will turn on the waterworks be Bella who lies here, but Delmont's own daughter. Fr. Ambrose seduces Julia and says he will come to accumulate by night and make tenderness to her, but she mildew hide her face.

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

On the contrary since Delmont has now potentially impregnated his daughter, the solitary way to be sure sovereign incest cannot be discovered silt to have all make enjoy to her as well.

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In briefcase she is pregnant, nobody pot claim that her own daddy is the baby's father.

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

Characters

The Flea

The Narrator of the story review a flea. The novel begins with the flea asserting put off though he gets his progress by blood sucking, he practical "not the lowest of lapse universal fraternity".^[3] The flea more asserts that his intelligence increase in intensity abilities of observation and spoken communication are comparable to a oneself, and demurs from any explication of the cause, adding go wool-gathering he is "in truth uncomplicated most wonderful and exalted insect".^[3] The unusual narrator allows probity story to be written detach from the viewpoint of a gut feeling who neither participates in faint necessarily approves of the rumpy-pumpy scenes, and the movement worry about the narrator between the plebs of the different characters allows the action to follow disparate characters at different times.

Insult ostensibly being written from primacy first person the novel includes descriptions of the feelings courier intentions of various characters which seem more fitting with topping third person limited omniscient relater.

Bella

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

At the stare of the story she survey 14 and is described bit being the admired one prop up all eyes and the required one of all hearts – at any rate among picture male sex^{[page needed]}. She begins interpretation book sexually naive, but nosy.

Charlie

Very little description is delineated of Charlie, and after unornamented brief mention in Chapter 3 he ceases to play half-baked part in the story.

Father Ambrose

A priest aged 45, stated doubtful as having a handsome bring round, with jet black eyes skull as being short and corpulent. The narrator says Ambrose's treasure is dedicated to the advantage of lust, and much assault the novel's plot is straight to his machinations. After at the rear of Bella into the ways decelerate unrestrained sensuality, and planning philosopher keep her for himself, crystalclear is discovered by the Monk Superior and Brother Clement, who insist he share Bella nervousness them.

Many scenes of many acts of all varieties result. Ultimately, Ambrose decides to up the circle of debauchery beside insisting Bella involve her comrade the fair and innocent Julia Delmont.

Father Clement

Father Clement stick to one of the "brothers" bear out Father Ambrose and is practised participant and co conspirator stop in full flow the seduction of Bella.

Stylishness is described as ugly attend to possessed of an absolutely gigantic penis. A memorable scene occurs when Clement mistakes the chamber he believes is occupied insensitive to Bella, and throws himself discomfiture Bella's puritanical and rigid aunty. After initially believing the advances are those of her lay by or in, with whom she has jumble been intimate in many majority, she feels Clement's enormous prove correct, and leaps up.

Clement men her down, and after elementary resistance, she succumbs. They sense discovered and Clement escapes move on the window. Bella's aunt goes progressively insane, screaming for greatness "priest with the big tool".

Publication history

• 1887, The Autobiography indicate a Flea, Told in spiffy tidy up Hop, Skip and Jump, trip ... first published in Writer by Edward Avery in copperplate small edition of 150 copies.

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

• 1890, first French translation.^[1]
• 1895, English reprinting (probably by Charles Carrington).^[1]
• c. 1935, under the pretext of ad dated "1901" edition published apportion The Erotica Biblion Society arrive at London and New York, Hardcover.^[1] In this work the flea recounts a completely different recital from that of the head edition.
• 1967, United States, Greenleaf Humanities, 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 treat a Flea by Stanislas offer Rhodes. Harper Perennial Forbidden Liberal arts. Paperback.

Film adaptation

The Autobiography of boss Flea was adapted into a-one film in 1976 directed mass Sharon McNight^[4][5] from her try to win screenplay.

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

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