Copyright © 1982 by Anita Brookner

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. Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, in 1982. First published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1982.

Libary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brookner, Anita.
Providence / Anita Brookner.
p. cm. — (Vintage contemporaries)
eISBN: 978-0-307-82621-3
I. Man-woman relationships — England — Fiction.
2. Women college teachers — England — Fiction. I. Title.
[PR605 2.R5816P75 1994]
823’.914 — dc20 93-6326

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