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The Vicar of Bullhampton, by Anthony
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Title: The Vicar of Bullhampton
Author: Anthony Trollope
Release Date: September 5, 2008 [eBook #26541]
Language: English
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THE VICAR OF BULLHAMPTON.
by
ANTHONY TROLLOPE.
With Thirty Illustrations by H. Woods.
[Illustration: Waiting-Room at the Assize Court. (frontispiece)]
[Illustration for title page]
London: Bradbury, Evans, and Co., 11, Bouverie Street. 1870.
PREFACE.
The writing of prefaces is, for the most part, work thrown away; and the writing of a preface to a novel is almost always a vain thing. Nevertheless, I am tempted to prefix a few words to this novel on its completion, not expecting that many people will read them, but desirous, in doing so, of defending myself against a charge which may possibly be made