All the World's a Stage

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A Weidenfeld & Nicolson ebook

First published in Great Britain in 2017 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson

This ebook edition published in 2017 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson

First published in Russian by Zakharov Publications, Moscow, Russia in 2010

Copyright © Boris Akunin 2010

English translation copyright © Andrew Bromfield 2017

The moral right of Boris Akunin to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.

Andrew Bromfield has asserted his right to be identified as the author of the English translation of the work.

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All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

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