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Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia
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First published in the U.S.A. 1969
Published by Victor Gollancz 1970
Published in Pelican Books 1972
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Copyright © John Brooks 1969
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Portions of this book have appeared in American Heritage and
The New Yorker
The lines on page 103 are from the ‘The Second Coming’ by William
Butler Yeats, in Collected Poems. Copyright 1924 by The
Macmillan Company. Copyright renewed 1952 by Bertha Georgie
Yeats. Reprinted here by permission, and by permission of M.
B. Yeats and Macmillan and Co.
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