The Signature of All Things: A Novel

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Copyright © 2013 by Elizabeth Gilbert

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Gilbert, Elizabeth, date

The signature of all things : a novel / Elizabeth Gilbert.

pages cm

ISBN 978-1-101-63800-2

1. Women botanists—Fiction. 2. Painters—Fiction. 3. Enlightenment—Fiction. 4. Industrial revolution—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3557.I3415S54 2013

813'.54—dc23 2013017045

Interior illustrations:

1: Cinchona calisaya

2: Dicranaceae

3: Aerides odoratum

4: Artocarpus incisa

5: Juglans laciniosa

The LuEsther T. Mertz Library of The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.