Copyright © 1983 by O.W. Toad Ltd.

First cloth edition published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart in 1983.
Trade paperback edition published in 1999.

All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system, without the prior written consent of the publisher – or, in case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, a licence from the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency – is an infringement of the copyright law.

Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Atwood, Margaret, 1939–
Bluebeard’s Egg
eISBN: 978-1-55199-487-1
I. Tide.
PS8501.T86B6 C813′.54 C83-099009-7
PR9199.3.A87B58 1999

The content and characters in this book are fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons or happenings is coincidental.

We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program for our publishing activities. Canada

We further acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program.

McClelland & Stewart Ltd.
75 Sherbourne Street
Toronto, Ontario
M5A 2P9
www.mcclelland.com

v3.1