Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England
Penguin Books Pty Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia
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First published by Macmillan 1949
This revised edition published in Penguin Books 1965
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Copyright © Rebecca West, 1949, 1965
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Made and printed in Great Britain
by Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd
Aylesbury, Bucks
Set in Linotype Georgian
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