# Vile Bodies — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh.

- [Epigraph](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/chapters/epigraph.md): The epigraph presents two excerpts from Lewis Carroll's 'Alice Through the Looking Glass,' contrasting the Red Queen's notion that one must run twice as fast to stay in place with Tweedledum's dismissal of Alice's tears 
- [Vile Bodies](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/chapters/vile-bodies.md): Adam Fenwick-Symes arrives in England after a rough channel crossing, only to have his autobiographical manuscript seized by customs. He then attends a series of wild parties, including Archie Schwert's savage party wher
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/chapters/i.md): The chapter opens on a rough Channel crossing from France to England. Among the passengers are Mrs. Melrose Ape and her angels, the Bright Young People (including Miss Runcible and Miles Malpractice), two tipsy old ladie
- [Chapter II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/chapters/ii.md): Adam Fenwick-Symes, after his manuscript is burned by customs, telephones his fiancée Nina Blount to break the news that he cannot marry her. They agree to meet later at Archie Schwert's party. Adam then visits his publi
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/chapters/iii.md): Adam Fenwick-Symes arrives at Shepheard's Hotel, run by the indomitable Lottie Crump, a relic of Edwardian certainty. The chapter introduces the hotel's eccentric atmosphere and its assortment of guests, including the de

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- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/chapters/iv.md)
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/chapters/v.md)
- [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/chapters/vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/chapters/vii.md)
- [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/chapters/viii.md)
- [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/chapters/ix.md)
- [The Motor Race Trip](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/chapters/x.md)
- [XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/chapters/xi.md)
- [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/chapters/xii.md)
- [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/chapters/xiii.md)
- [Happy Ending](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/chapters/happy-ending.md)
- [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/chapters/endnotes.md)

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