This transcription follows the text of the US Doubleday edition published in 1929. However, the following alterations have been made to correct what are believed to be unambiguous errors in the text:
- “breathlessnes” has been corrected to “breathlessness” (Chapter 1);
- “unpholstered” has been corrected to “upholstered” (Chapter 6);
- “yould” has been corrected to “would” (Chapter 11);
- “ummoved” has been corrected to “unmoved” (Chapter 14);
- “into diet kitchen” has been corrected to “into the diet kitchen” (Chapter 15);
- A sentence missing a closing parenthesis has been repaired.
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