Penguin Modern Stories 2

Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia

First published in book form in Great Britain by Penguin Books Ltd 1969

‘The Wait’; ‘Bech in Romania’; ‘Man and Daughter in the Cold’ copyright © John Updike and the New Yorker, 1968, 1966, 1968 ‘The Fifteen Dollar Eagle’ copyright © Ted Hughes, 1969 ‘The Geography Lesson’; ‘The Battle for Mendel Schaffer’; ‘A View from the Seventh Floor’; ‘Life Class’ copyright © Emanuel Litvinoff, 1969

Made and printed in Great Britain by Cox and Wyman Ltd., London Reading and Fakenham Set in Intertype Baskerville

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