Fludd: A Novel

Copyright © 1989 by Hilary Mantel

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First published in hardcover in the United Kingdom in 1989 by Viking UK

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mantel, Hilary, date.

Fludd.—1st Owl Books ed.

p. cm.

1. Fludd, Robert, 1574—1637—Fiction. 2. Alchemists—England—Fiction. 3. Reincarnation—Fiction. 4. Catholic Church—England—Clergy—Fiction.

I. Title.

PR6063.A438 F58 2000

99-049485

823’.914—dc21

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