Penguin Modern Stories 4

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 1970

‘The Talking Trees’ originally appeared in Playboy Magazine copyright © 1968 by H.H. Publishing Co. Inc.; ‘A Dead Cert’ © Sean O'Faolain, 1969; ‘A Satisfactory Settlement’ © Nadine Gordimer, 1970; ‘Abroad’ © Nadine Gordimer, 1968; ‘A Man of Mystery’, ‘The Political Education of Clarissa Forbes’, ‘The Beauty Contest’ © Shiva Naipaul, I970

Made and printed in Great Britain by C. Nicholls & Company Ltd Set in Monotype Baskerville

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