Holy the Firm ANNIE DILLARD

PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

ORIGINAL PUBLICATION INFORMATION:

A hardcover copy of this book was published in 1977 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.

A portion of this work originally appeared in Harper’s Magazine holy the firm. Copyright © 1977 by Annie Dillard. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotataions embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information address Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10022. Published simultaneously in Canada by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited, Toronto.

First harper colophon edition published 1984. Reissued in perennial library in 1988.

Designer: Gloria Adelson

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Dillard, Annie.

Holy the firm.

“Perennial Library.”

1. Meditations. I. Title.

BV4832.2.D54 1988 242 77-8883

ISBN 0-06-091543-9 (pbk.)