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Title: Vain Fortune
Author: George Moore
Release Date: February 26, 2004 [eBook #11303]
Language: English
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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VAIN FORTUNE***

[Illustration: "She slipped on her knees, and burst into a passionate fit
of weeping."]
Vain Fortune
A Novel
By
George Moore
_With Five Illustrations By__Maurice Greiffenhagen_
New Edition
Completely Revised
London: Walter Scott, Ltd. Paternoster Square
1895
Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty


Prefatory Note

I hope it will not seem presumptuous to ask my critics to treat this new
edition of _Vain Fortune_ as a new book: for it is a new book. The first
edition was kindly noticed, but it attracted little attention, and very
rightly, for the story as told therein was thin and insipid; and when
Messrs. Scribner proposed to print the book in America, I stipulated that I
should be allowed to rewrite it.
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