A tasteful and industrious reader named Andrew Stratford has taken the trouble to create a narrow-margined, single-spaced RTF version of the novel that can be printed out in a mere 170 pages. To download this as a zip file, RIGHT CLICK HERE, then select “Save Target As” (or “Save Link Target As” if you’re a Netscaper).
[Note as of June 2007: In the year or so since this RTF version was created, I’ve been obliged to make several changes to the online text of the novel, some of them quite substantial – and I’m afraid I kind of forgot to make the same changes to the RTF. In other words, the RTF no longer contains the definitive text of A Dancing Bear. It’s pretty close, but those wanting a defintive print version should go HERE.]