Autobiography of a Flea

By Anonymous

Book Overview

The Autobiography of a Flea (1887) is an anonymously written pornographic novel. Published by infamous London pornographer Edward Avery, The Autobiography of a Flea was adapted into a 1976 film starring John Holmes. Bella is an orphan girl who lives with her uncle and aunt. Na ve and curious, she encounters a handsome man while leaving church one day. Introducing himself as Charlie, he hands her a note and heads on his way. Nervous at first, Bella reads the note and finds herself compelled by its mystery-Charlie requests to meet her at night in the local gardens. That night, she has her first sexual experience, only to be interrupted by Father Ambrose, who was watching the pair from the shadows. Using his authority, he instructs Bella to meet him the following afternoon in the sacristy, where he informs her that unless she agrees to be seduced by him and his fellow men of the cloth, he will reveal the secret of her tryst with Charlie. The Autobiography of a Flea is a controversial story that meets time-honored taboos head on, depicting religious corruption, incest, and an orgy involving nineteen lustful priests. Narrated throughout by a lowly parasite, the story provides a flea's-eye-view on the hidden nature of human society. This edition of The Autobiography of a Flea is a classic of erotic literature reimagined for modern readers.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1513209302
• ISBN13: 9781513209302
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Mint Editions
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Brilliantly written

This book is such a beautiful and saucy read. Brilliantly written with wonderful descriptions. A fast read that you won't want to put down. A book you can read over and over. Definitely a feast for the sensual mind.

Great book great movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS IS A GREAT BOOK. And the mitchell brothers classic film was fantastic. the movie was absolutely brilliant!

...enter the Naughty Bug!

Get ready for a ride with the most unlikely of tour guides. He's a flea, (quite literally), with a seemingly tireless desire to live out the voyeur's dream. Beginning with a young woman and travelling into the depths of titillating depravity, this narrative will amuse and arouse even the most detached of readers. It's often supposed that our Victorian predecessors had a simplistic and becalmed view of what sex should be and that they spent their most intimate moments teeter-tottering between self-conscious embarrassment and a few seconds of climactic pleasure--not so! This interesting book explores the fact that intelligent people everywhere, and from every time, share some common attributes in the sexual arena: they explore their own fantasies to extremes and in very complex detail. Another link to our collective past? Well, maybe that would be telling it a little too dramatically. The book is marred by a rather one-note plot line and it becomes faintly out of touch when exploring some of the more harmless "taboos", but after all, it is erotica. And a flea's personal views, might, after all, need to be a bit focused, even if he tries for the profound. He's still just a self-proclaimed little love bug.