The Stockholm Octavo (42 page)

Acknowledgments

Any event that may befall the Seeker—
any event
—can be connected to a set of eight people. And the eight must be in place for the event to occur.

—
MRS. SPARROW

 

 

To my eight:

• Agent Amy Williams
  
• Editor Lee Boudreaux
  
• Associate editor Abigail Holstein
  
• Teachers and advisors Nicola Morris and Jeanne Mackin
  
• “Bokhandlare” med mera
  Lars Walldov and Lars Sandell
  
• My Key, Erik Ulfers
  

Like Master Fredrik's map, the eight expand outward, no less influential for that.

Many thanks to:

• The brilliant team at Ecco
  
• Foreign rights agent extraordinaire Susan Hobson
  
• Early readers Margaret S. Hall, Snezjana Opacic, Kina Paulsson, Mindy Farkas, Audrey Sackner-Bernstein, Robin Jacobs, Gia Young, Dan Nemteanu, Christof Dannenberg, Martha Letterman, Michele Carroll, Carolyn Bloom, Christie LaVigne, Anilla Cherian, Rick Engelmann, Sally Boyle, Ailleen Engelmann, Lynn Grant, Brian Grant, Teri Goodman, Therese Sabine, Char Hawks, Carm Bush, and Rita Engelmann. Thank you for slogging through those endless drafts (sometimes more than once) and cheering me on.
  
• Authors All/Decatur Island Writers: Lynn Grant, Carla Norton, Rachel Goldstein and Marisa Silver
  
• The Goddard College community, with a special thought for the late Cynthia Wilson
  
• Lynn Schmeidler and Wild Geese Writers
  
• The American Scandinavian Society of New York for their support and recognition
  
• Labyrinth helper Ann Van den Berghe
  
• Agneta Lindelöf, for that visit to
  Kulturen
  in Lund so many years ago
  
• Fan collector Donna Thompson
  
• Fellow traveler Martha Letterman
  
• My mother, Rita, whose folding fans were points of intriguing grace and refinement when I was growing up
  
• Lilly and Nia Engelmann Ulfers—proof positive that life is beautiful
  

About the Author

KAREN ENGELMANN
lived and worked in Sweden for eight years. She has an MFA from Goddard College in Vermont. She currently lives in Dobbs Ferry, New York.

www.karenengelmann.com

 

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Credits

Cover design by Allison Saltzman
Cover artwork by Fiona Richards, based on a deck of sixteenth-century German playing cards illustrated by Jost Amman, used by permission from the collections of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, and the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany: Uh 20

Interior artwork: Illustrated Octavo Cards by Jost Amman. Source (except for the Under Knave of Books): Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Under Knave of Books card source: Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany: Uh 20.

Copyright

All Carl Michael Bellman lyrics are taken from Paul Britten Austin's
Fredman's Epistles & Songs—A Selection in English with a Short Introduction
and are used by permission from Proprius Förlag AB, Stockholm, Sweden.

 

THE STOCKHOLM OCTAVO.
Copyright © 2012 by Karen Engelmann. 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 ebook 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 hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins ebooks.

 

FIRST EDITION

 

ISBN 978-0-06-199534-7

 

Epub Edition © NOVEMBER 2012 ISBN: 9780062190482

 

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