Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England
Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia
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First published in Great Britain by Cassell 1965
Copyright © Robert Graves, 1953, 1954, I955, 1956, 1957, 1958,
1959, 1960, 1962, 1964
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Most of the stories in this volume have appeared in magazines. These publications include Punch, the New Statesman, Sports Illus- trated, Gentleman’s Quarterly, Lilliput, Playboy, and Encounter. More precise acknowledgement is due to the Saturday Evening Post for ‘Christmas Truce’, which is originally published as ‘Wave No Banners’ (copyright © 1962 The Curtis Publishing Company); Holi- day, for an early version of "The Apartment House’, published as ‘An Imperial Tale’ (copyright © 1960 The Curtis Publishing Company), and the New Strand for the later version of the same story, which they published as ‘The Tenement: A Vision of Imperial Rome’ (copyright © 1962 International Authors N.V.); and the New Yorker, in whose pages first appeared ‘A Bicycle in Majorca’ ‘Evidence of Affuence’, ‘A Toast to Ava Gardner’ and ‘She Landed Yesterday’
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Set in Linotype Granjon
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