Chapters (42)
- Contents
- The Cast
- The Stage
- Map of Venice
- Map of Italy
- Act I: Fortunato’s Fate
- One: The Trap
- Two: The Dark
- Three: A Spot of Bother
- Four: How Much for the Monkey?
- Five: Ladies of the Lagoon
- Six: The Players
- Act II: The Watery City
- Seven: La Giudecca
- Eight: A Pound of Flesh
- Nine: Two Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety-nine Golden Ducats
- Ten: Intrigue Beneath the Bawd
- Eleven: Siren Ascending
- Twelve: To Belmont and Beyond
- Act III: The Moor of Venice
- Thirteen: Bold and Saucy Wrongs
- Fourteen: A World of Sighs
- Fifteen: What Wicked Webs
- Sixteen: A Nasty Piece of Work
- Seventeen: A Fool’s Ransom
- Act IV: The Green-eyed Monster
- Eighteen: Cloak, Dagger, Wimple, and Veil
- Nineteen: Well Met in Corsica Once More
- Twenty: The Art of Persuasion
- Act V: A Pound of Flesh
- Twenty-one: Savage Puppets
- Twenty-two: No Shit, Shylock
- Twenty-three: The Trial
- Twenty-four: The Verdict
- Twenty-five: Arise! Black Vengeance!
- Twenty-six: Off Jolly Rogering!
- Afterword
- About the Author
- Also by Christopher Moore
- Credits
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
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Credits
CREDITS
Cover design and Illustration by Adam Johnson
Author photograph © by Lynn Grady
Map of Venice: woodcut by Jacopo de’ Barbari, Italy, 1500
Map of Italy: © by Slava Gerj/Shutterstock Inc.
Copyright
COPYRIGHT
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
THE SERPENT OF VENICE. Copyright © 2014 by Christopher Moore. 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 e-book 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 e-books.
FIRST EDITION
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Moore, Christopher, 1957–
The serpent of Venice : a novel / Christopher Moore. — First Edition.
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ISBN 978-0-06-177976-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-06-177977-0 (trade paperback : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-06-219487-9 (e-book) 1. Merchants—Italy—Venice—Fiction. 2. Senators—Italy—Venice—Fiction. 3. Naval officers—Italy—Venice—Fiction. 4. Avarice—Fiction. 5. Revenge—Fiction. 6. Deception—Fiction. 7. Attempted murder—Fiction. 8. Venice (Italy)—Foreign relations—1508–1797—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3563.O594S47 2014
813’.54—dc23
2014002826
ISBN 978-0-06-233590-6 (international edition)
ISBN 978-0-06-234835-7 (Barnes & Noble signed edition)
ISBN 978-0-06-234836-4 (Books-A-Million signed edition)
EPub Edition APRIL 2014 9780062194879
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