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First published in Great Britain in 1951.
This ebook edition published by Allison & Busby in 2013.
Copyright © 1950 by BUDD SCHULBERG
Copyright in the Introduction © 1983 by ESTATE OF ANTHONY BURGESS
The following are reprinted by permission of the owners of copyright: Quotations from T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Hollow Men’ and ‘The Waste Land’. Both are from Mr Eliot’s Collected Poems 1909-1935, copyright 1936 by Harcourt, Brace and Company Inc., and are used with their permission. Lyrics from ‘Nagasaki’ by Harry Warren and Mort Dixon. Copyright 1928 by Remick Music Corporation. Reprinted by permission.
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ISBN 978–0–7490–1312–7