Two Stories and a Memory

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Racconti first published in Italy 1961 This translation first published in Great Britain by Collins & Harvill Press 1962 Published in Penguin Books 1966

Copyright © Feltrinelli Editore, Milan, 1961 Translation copyright © William Collins Ltd and Pantheon Books Inc., 1962

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