Fiction for the Working Man

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First published by Oxford University Press 1963 Published in Penguin University Books 1974

Copyright © Louis James, 1973

Made and printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk Set in Monotype Garamond

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