Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex
Australia: Penguin Books Pty Ltd, 762 Whitehorse Road,
Mitcham, Victoria
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First published by Michael Joseph 1960
Published in Penguin Books 1963
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Copyright © John and Emery Bonett, 1959
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Made and printed in Great Britain by Hunt, Barnard & Co. Ltd, Aylesbury Set in Monotype Garamond
The authors wish to thank J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd for permission to reprint Family Court by Ogden Nash; Macmillan & Co. Ltd for per- mission to quote the lines by Thomas Hardy and W. B. Yates; the Executors of Rudyard Kipling and Captain Harry Graham for per- mission to use the lines on page 41 and page 161; and the Executor of Edna St Vincent Millay for permission to quite lines from a sonnet published by Hamish HAmilton in The Collected Poems of Edna St Vincent Millay.
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