The Twelfth Enchantment

Copyright

The Twelfth Enchantment is a work of historical fiction. Apart from well-known actual people, events, and locales that figure in the narrative, all names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to current events or locales, or to living persons, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2011 by David Liss

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Liss, David

The twelfth enchantment: a novel / David Liss

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-1-58836-962-8

1. Young women—England—Fiction. 2. England—Social conditions—19th century—

Fiction. 3. Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788–1824—Fiction.

4. Blake, William, 1757–1827—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3562.I7814D37 2011 813’.54—dc22 2011001748

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Jacket design: Kathleen DiGrado

Jacket illustrations: Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, Agnes Rauch, c. 1825 (bpk, Berlin/Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg/Hanne Moschkowitz/Art Resource, N.Y.); Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts, Trompe l’oeil with letters and notebooks, 1665 (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen/Giraudon/Bridgeman Art Library International); The Granger Collection (magic chart); © Mary Evans

Picture Library/Alamy (angel drawing behind magic chart)

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