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The Hounds and the Fury is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2006 by American Artists, Inc.
Title page illustrations copyright © 2006 by Lee Gildea, Jr.
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
BALLANTINE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in Publication Data
Brown, Rita Mae.
The hounds and the fury : a novel/Rita Mae Brown.—1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Fox hunting—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3552.R698H63 2006
813'.54—dc22 2006042768
eISBN: 978-0-345-49543-3
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