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Copyright © 1945 by RCS Libri S.p.A. Milan; Bompiani 1944–2010

Translation copyright © 2014 by Michael F. Moore

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Agostino was first published in Italy in 1945 by Casa editrice Valentino Bompiani & C. S.p.A.

Cover image: Carlo Carra, Pine Tree by the Sea, 1921; private collection, Rome; Mondadori Portfolio / Electa / Art Resource, NY
Cover design: Katy Homans

The Library of Congress has cataloged the earlier printing as follows:

Moravia, Alberto, 1907–1990.

Agostino / Alberto Moravia ; translated by Michael F. Moore.

pages cm. — (New York Review Books Classics)

ISBN 978-1-59017-723-5 (paperback)

I. Moore, Michael, 1954 August 24- II. Title.

PQ4829.O62A6313 2014

853'.912—dc23

2013050863

ISBN 978-1-59017-737-2

v1.0

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