Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex
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Penguin Books Pty Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia
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First published by Faber and Faber 1962
Published in Penguin Books 1964
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Copyright © John Bowen, 1962
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Made and printed in Great Britain
by Richard Clay & Company, Ltd,
Bungay, Suffolk
Set in Monotype Times
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