FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1930 THIS EDITION, RESET, 1965 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY BUTLER & TANNER LTD FROME & LONDON CATALOGUE NO. 4/5055/02 This was a totally unplanned novel. I had the facility at the age of 25 to sit down at my table, set a few characters on the move, write 3000 words a day, and note with surprise what happened. The composition of _Vile Bodies_ was interrupted by a sharp disturbance in my private life and was finished in a very different mood from that in which it was begun. The reader may, perhaps, notice the transition from gaiety to bitter…
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