The Spring of the Ram - Dorothy Dunnett [302]
Fiction/978-0-375-7085-5
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Copyright © 1987 by Dorothy Dunnett
Introduction copyright © 1994 by Judith Wilt
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Michael Joseph, Ltd., London, in 1987, and in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1988.
The Introduction was originally published in slightly different form in the United States edition of The Unicorn Hunt published in 1994 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Dunnett Dorothy.
The spring of the ram.
(The House of Niccolo; 2)
I. Title. II. Series: Dunnett, Dorothy.
House of Niccolò; 2.
PR6054.U56S3 1988 823′.914 87-37847
eISBN: 978-0-307-76241-2
Author photograph © Alison Dunnett
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Table of Contents
Cover
Map
Title Page
The House of Niccolò: PREFACE
Characters
Introduction
Overture
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Reader’s Guide
About the Author
Other Books By This Author
Copyright