VILE BODIES Vile Bodies is a 1930 novel satirising the bright young things: decadent young London society after World War I. The title appears in a comment made by the novel’s narrator in reference to the characters’ party-driven lifestyle: “All that succession and repetition of massed humanity... Those vile bodies...” |
Contents
Chapter One | 9 |
Chapter Two | 26 |
Chapter Three | 43 |
Chapter Four | 60 |
Chapter Five | 73 |
Chapter Six | 102 |
Chapter Seven | 132 |
Chapter Eight | 149 |
Chapter Nine | 168 |
Chapter Ten | 187 |
Chapter Eleven | 224 |
Chapter Twelve | 227 |
Chapter Thirteen | 248 |
Happy Ending | 271 |
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