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IN A YELLOW WOOD
WILLIWAW
IN A YELLOW WOOD
By
GORE VIDAL
1947 E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY, INC. NEW YORK
Copyright, 1947, by E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A.
FIRST EDITION
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American Book-Stratford Press, Inc., New York
For Anais Nin
All of the characters, all of the events and most of the places in this book are fictitious.
CONTENT
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1 DAY 7
Chapter One 9
Chapter Two 18
Chapter Three 31
Chapter Four 46
Chapter Five 59
Chapter Six 73
Chapter Seven 86
Chapter Eight 103
2 NIGHT 113
Chapter Nine 115
Chapter Ten 143
Chapter Eleven 166
Chapter Twelve 180
3 THE YELLOW WOOD 195
Chapter Thirteen 197
Chapter Fourteen 209
1 DAY
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveller....
—Frost
From Collected Poems by Robert Frost. Copyright, 1930, 1939, by Henry Holt and Company, Inc. Copyright, 1936, by Robert Frost.