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The Devil’s Disciple copyright © George Bernard Shaw, reproduced by permission of The Society of Authors on behalf of the Bernard Shaw Estate.
Dreaming War by Gore Vidal copyright © 2007, reprinted by permission of Nation Books, a member of The Perseus Book Group and the author.
The God of Small Things copyright © 1997 Arundhati Roy, reproduced by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd and the author.
Happy Xmas (War Is Over) copyright © 1971. Renewed 1999 LENONO MUSIC and ONO MUSIC. Used by Permission /All Rights Reserved.
‘Inside the Whale’ from A Collection of Essays by George Orwell copyright © 1950 Sonia Brownell Orwell. Copyright © renewed 1978 by Sonia Pitt-Rivers. Reprinted in the US by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Inside the Whale by George Orwell (copyright © George Orwell, 1937) Reprinted in the UK by permission of Bill Hamilton as the Literary Executor of the Estate of the Late Sonia Brownell Orwell.
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver. Copyright © 1972 by Giulio Einaudi editore, s.p.a Torino, English translation copyright © 1983, 1984 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Love Among the Chickens copyright © P. G. Wodehouse, reproduced by permission of The Estate of P. G. Wodehouse c/o Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd., 20 Powis Mews, London W11 1JN.
‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ taken from Prufrock and Other Observations copyright © Estate of T.S. Eliot and reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Copyright © 1949 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Copyright © renewed 1977 by Sonia Brownell Orwell. Reprinted in the US by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (copyright © George Orwell, 1948). Reprinted in the UK by permission of Bill Hamilton as the Literary Executor of the Estate of the Late Sonia Brownell Orwell.
‘The Secret Sits’ taken from The Poetry of Robert Frost edited by Edward Connery Latham, published by Jonathan Cape. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Limited.