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First published in the U.S.A. 1940 Published in Great Britain by Secker & Warburg 1966 Published in Penguin Books 1970 Copyright © Christina Stead, 1940 Introduction copyright © Randall Jarrell, 1965
Copyright © Arthur Koestler, 1959
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