The Ruined Boys

Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia

First published by André Deutsch 1959 Published in Penguin Books 1970 Copyright © Roy Fuller, 1959

Epigraph from Collected Shorter Poems, by W. H. Auden published by Faber & Faber

Made and printed in Great Britain by Cox & Wyman Ltd, London, Reading and Fakenham Set in Linotype Georgian

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