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      First published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2016

      First published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, in 2016

      Text © James Gleick 2016

      James Gleick asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      Grateful acknowledgment is made to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company for permission to reprint excerpts from “Burnt Norton” and “The Dry Salvages” from Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot, copyright © 1936 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, renewed 1964 by T. S. Eliot, and renewed 1969 by Esme Valerie Eliot. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

      Grateful acknowledgment is also made to Faber & Faber Ltd for permission to reprint excerpts from “Burnt Norton” and “The Dry Salvages” from Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot. © The Estate of T.S. Eliot. Reproduced by kind permission of Faber & Faber Ltd.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008207670

      Ebook Edition © September 2016 ISBN: 9780007544448

      Version: 2017-08-25