Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex
Australia: Penguin Books Pty Ltd, 762 Whitehorse Road,
Mitcham, Victoria
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First published by Eyre & Spottiswoode 1956
Published in Penguin Books 1961
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Copyright © Patrick White, 1956
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Made and printed in Great Britain
by Cox and Wyman Ltd,
London, Reading and Fakenham
The lines of poetry on page 376 are from A. E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad, XXXI
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