Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex
Australia: Penguin Books Pty Ltd, 762 Whitehorse Road,
Mitcham, Victoria
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First published by Hamish Hamilton 1957
Published in Penguin Books 1964
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Copyright © L. P. Hartley, 1957
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Made and printed in Great Britain
by Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd
Aylesbury and Slough
Set in Linotype Georgian
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