Eligible is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2016 by Curtis Sittenfeld

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Sittenfeld, Curtis.

Eligible: a novel / Curtis Sittenfeld.

pages ; cm

ISBN 978-1-4000-6832-6

International edition ISBN 978-0-3995-8952-2

ebook ISBN 978-0-8129-9761-3

1. Sisters—Fiction. 2. Families—Fiction. I. Austen, Jane, 1775–1817. Pride and prejudice. II. Title.

PS3619.I94E45 2016

813'.6—dc23

2015027778

eBook ISBN 9780812997613

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