Cat's Cradle

Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth Middlesex, England Penguin Books Pty Ltd, Ringwood Victoria, Australia

First published in the U.S.A. 1963 Published in Great Britain by Gollancz 1963 Published in Penguin Books 1965

Copyright © Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 1963

Grateful acknowledgement is made to Mrs E. L. Masters for permission to reprint ‘Knowlt Hoheimer’ from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters. Copyright Macmillan 1914, 1915, 1942

Made and printed in Great Britain by The Whitefriars Press Ltd, London and Tonbridge

Set in Monotype Plantin

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