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First published by Harvester 1980
Published with an Introduction in Penguin Classics 2000
Reissued in Penguin Classics 2016

Copyright © J. L. Carr, 1980
Introduction copyright © Penelope Fitzgerald, 2000

Cover image: National Railway Museum Pictorial/Science & Society Picture Library.

The moral rights of the author and translator have been asserted

PUBLISHED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH QUINCE TREE PRESS

ISBN: 978-0-141-90582-2