''Vestal Fire'' is a 1927
comedy novel
A comic novel is a novel-length work of humorous fiction. Many well-known authors have written comic novels, including P. G. Wodehouse, Henry Fielding, Mark Twain, and John Kennedy Toole. Comic novels are often defined by the author's literary ...
by the British writer
Compton Mackenzie
Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, (17 January 1883 – 30 November 1972) was a Scottish writer of fiction, biography, histories and a memoir, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur and lifelong Scottish nationalist. He was one of th ...
.
[Linklater p.210-12] It was inspired by the time Mackenzie had spent living in
Capri before the
First World War
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
.
See also
* ''
Lost Gay Novels''
References
Bibliography
* David Joseph Dooley. ''Compton Mackenzie''. Twayne Publishers, 1974.
* Andro Linklater. ''Compton Mackenzie: A Life'' Hogarth Press, 1992.
External links
Full text of ''Vestal Fire'' at HathiTrust Digital Library
1927 British novels
Novels by Compton Mackenzie
British comedy novels
Cassell (publisher) books
George H. Doran Company books
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