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A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1935 by Harper & Brothers, Publishers. It is reprinted here by arrangement with the Wilder Family LLC.

HEAVEN’S MY DESTINATION. Copyright © 1934 by the Wilder Family LLC. Foreword © 2003 by J. D. McClatchy. Afterword © 2003, 2020 by Tappan Wilder. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

FIRST PERENNIAL EDITION PUBLISHED 2003.

FIRST HARPER PERENNIAL MODERN CLASSICS EDITION PUBLISHED 2020.

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The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover as follows:

Wilder, Thornton

Heaven’s my destination / Thornton Wilder.—1st Perennial ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-06-008889-3

1. Traveling sales personnel—Fiction. 2. Textbooks—Publishing—Fiction. 3. Christian converts—Fiction. 4. Middle West—Fiction. 5. Depressions—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3545.I345H4 2003

813'.52—dc21

Digital Edition DECEMBER 2020 ISBN: 978-0-06-308015-7

Version 10272020

Print ISBN: 978-0-06-299021-1