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The Autobiography Of A Flea
A Mock-Confessional Journey Through Victorian Censorship, Anti-Clerical Satire, and Underground Print CultureBy Anonymous
Length5h 39m
About this audiobook
The Autobiography of a Flea is a provocative Victorian-era picaresque novel that adopts the improbable perspective of a flea to survey human desire, hypocrisy, and social convention. Its fantastical premise permits the narrator to move freely across boundaries of class, household, and propriety, while the mock-biographical form gives clandestine erotic material the structure and ironic authority of a serious life narrative. Combining satire, voyeuristic observation, and broad comic invention, the book belongs to the nineteenth-century tradition of anonymous and pseudonymous libertine fiction, in which fantastic narrators exposed the gap between public morality and private conduct. Its literary interest lies not only in its sexual frankness but also in its use of miniature scale and radical mobility as tools of social criticism. The author remains anonymous, a fact that is itself significant. The work emerged from a print culture in which erotic books circulated discreetly, often without reliable publication histories or stable authorial identities. Anonymity protected writers and publishers from legal and reputational consequences while allowing the narrative voice to assume an audacious freedom. The choice of a flea—an observer both intimate and physically insignificant—suggests a deliberate strategy for examining Victorian manners from beneath the level of respectable discourse. Readers interested in Victorian sexuality, censorship, popular fiction, and the history of the erotic novel will find this an unusually inventive text. It is best approached critically, as both a product of its period and a playful experiment in narrative perspective. Scholarly readers will appreciate the tension between its sensational surface and its sustained satire of social hypocrisy.
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Rating★★★ 3.2 (1.2K)
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GenreRomance, Humor
Length5 hrs 39 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 6, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Night in a Moorish Harem
8Chapter VII
2Chapter I
9Chapter VIII
3Chapter II
10Chapter IX
4Chapter III
11Chapter X
5Chapter IV
12Chapter XI
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6Chapter V
13Chapter XII
7Chapter VI
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