FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, MARCH 2003

Copyright © 2001 by Ian McEwan
Excerpt from Lessons copyright © 2022 by Ian McEwan

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in hardcover in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape in 2001 and subsequently in hardcover in the United States by Nan A. Talese, an imprint of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2002.

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to quote from copyrighted material: “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” from W. H. Auden: Collected Poems by W. H. Auden. Copyright © 1940 and renewed 1968 by W. H. Auden. Used by permission of Random House, Inc.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Nan A. Talese/Doubleday edition as follows:
McEwan, Ian.
Atonement: a novel / Ian McEwan.—1st ed. in the USA
p. cm.
1. Dunkerque (France), Battle of, 1940—Fiction. 2. Country life—Fiction.
3. Ex-convicts—Fiction. 4. England—Fiction. 5. Sisters—Fiction. 6. Guilt—Fiction.
I. Title.
PR6063.C4 A88 2002
823′.914—dc21 2001044291
CIP

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