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Authors: A.S. Byatt
FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, NOVEMBER
1998
Copyright
©
1994 by A. S. Byatt
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
This work was originally published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus Limited, London, a division of Random House UK, in 1994.
“The Glass Coffin” and “Gode’s Story” were originally published in
Possession.
Copyright © 1990 by A. S. Byatt. “The Eldest Princess,” copright © 1992 by A. S. Byatt. “Dragons’ Breath” and “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye,” copyright © 1994 by A. S. Byatt.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material: Osman Streater: Excerpts from “Göksu” by Faruk Hafiz çamlibel and “Evening” by Ahmet Hasim, translated by Nermin Menemencioglu Streater in
The Penguin Book of Turkish Verse
(Penguin Books UK, 1978). Copyright © 1978 by Nermin Menemencioglu and Fabir Ir.
The Library of Congress has cataloged
the Random House edition as follows:
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan).
The Djinn in the nightingale’s eye: five fairy stories /
A.S. Byatt.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Contents: The glass coffin—Gode’s story—The story of the eldest princess—Dragons’ breath—The Djinn in the nightingale’s eye.
eISBN: 978-0-307-48387-4
1. Fantastic fiction, English.
2. Fairy tales—England.
I. Title.
PR6052.Y2D58 1997
823′.914—dc21 96–46330
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