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First published in te U.S.A. 1960 Published in Great Britain by Victor Gollancz, 1961. Published in Penguin Books 1969 Copyright © Peter de Vries, 1959, 1961
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To Emily with love
The lines on page 48 have been adapted from ‘Wild Peaches’ and taken from the Collected Poems of Elinor Wylie, published by Aldred A. Knopf, Inc. copyright 1921, 1932.