Afterword copyright © 2016 by Jane Vandenburgh

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy), 1908-1992.

Title: The theoretical foot / M. F. K. Fisher.

Description: Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2016. | “2015

Identifiers: LCCN 2015036016

Subjects: LCSH: Americans--Europe--Fiction. | Voyages and travels--Fiction. | Man-woman relationships--Fiction. | Europe--Social life and custums--1918-1945--Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Literary. | GSAFD: Autobiographical fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3511.I7428 T48 2016 | DDC 813/.54--dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015036016

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