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Vestal Fire
First edition (US)
AuthorCompton Mackenzie
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreComedy
PublisherCassell (UK)
George H. Doran (US)
Publication date
1927
Media typePrint

Vestal Fire is a 1927 comedy novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie.[1] It was inspired by the time Mackenzie had spent living in Capri before the First World War.

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