Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker

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  Copyright

  Excerpt from “Lewis Carroll” from The Moment and Other Essays by Virginia Woolf. Copyright © 1946 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, and renewed 1976 by Marjorie T. Parsons. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

  Acknowledgment also given to the Society of Authors as the Literary Representative of the Estate of Virginia Woolf.

  Three lines of “State of the Planet” from Time and Materials: Poems, 1997–2005 by Robert Hass. Copyright © 2007 by Robert Hass. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

  Excerpt from “summer, somewhere” by Danez Smith used with permission of the author. Extract from “summer, somewhere” first appeared in Poetry.

  hiddensee. Copyright © 2017 by Gregory Maguire. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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  Digital Edition October 2017 ISBN: 978-0-06-268440-0

  Print ISBN: 978-0-06-268438-7

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