The Queen's Gambit

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The Queen’s Gambit
Walter Tevis

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Copyright
The Queen’s Gambit
Copyright © 1983, 2014 by Walter Tevis
Cover art, special contents, and electronic edition © 2014 by RosettaBooks
LLC
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any
form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information
storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the
publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Scribner, an imprint of the Simon and
Schuster Adult Publishing Group and A. P. Watt Limited for permission to
reprint ten lines from “The Long-Legged Fly” from The Collected Works of
W. B. Yeats, Volume 1: The Poems, Revised, edited by Richard J. Finneran.
Copyright © 1940 by Georgie Yeats; copyright renewed 1968 by Bertha
Georgie Yeats, Michael Butler Yeats and Anne Yeats. Rights outside of the
United States are controlled by A. P. Watt Limited, London. Reprinted by
permission.
Cover design by Brad Albright
ISBN Mobipocket edition: 9780795343070

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For Eleanora

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That the topless towers be burnt
And men recall that face,
Move gently if move you must
In this lonely place.
She thinks, part woman, three parts a child,
That nobody looks; her feet
Practice a tinker shuffle
Picked up on a street.
Like a long-legged fly upon the stream
Her mind moves upon silence.
—W. B. Y
EATS
, “Long-legged Fly”

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