—Charles Vess
About This Book
This book was edited by Andrea Spooner and Deirdre Jones and designed by Saho Fujii under the art direction of Dave Caplan and Sasha Illingworth. The production was supervised by Virginia Lawther, and the production editor was Christine Ma. This book was printed on 100-gsm Gold Sun Woodfree paper. The text was set in MrsEaves, and the display type is hand-lettered.
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
Epigraph
Spirits in the Woods
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Away
Chapter Three: Sarah Jane
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Seven
Awful Sharp Thing, a Bee Is
Chapter Eight: Adie and Elsie
Chapter Nine: Laurel and Bess
Chapter Ten: Ruth and Grace
Chapter Eleven: Laurel and Bess
Chapter Twelve: Ruth and Grace
Chapter Thirteen: Adie and Elsie
Chapter Fourteen: Laurel and Bess
A Savage Grace
Chapter Fifteen: Sarah Jane
Chapter Sixteen: Adie and Elsie
Chapter Seventeen: Laurel and Bess
Chapter Eighteen: Sarah Jane
Chapter Nineteen: Ruth and Grace
Chapter Twenty-One: Elsie
Chapter Twenty-Two: Sarah Jane
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
For as Long a Time as Distance
Chapter Twenty-Six: Sarah Jane
Artist’s Note
About This Book
Copyright
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Text copyright © 2014 by Charles de Lint
Illustrations copyright © 2014 by Charles Vess
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Seven Wild Sisters first appeared as a limited edition book written by Charles de Lint and illustrated by Charles Vess and was published in 2002 by Subterranean Press.
First ebook edition: February 2014
ISBN 978-0-316-23995-0
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