Comfort Me with Apples

Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books Pty Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia

First published in the USA by Little Brown 1956 First published in Great Britain by Gollan cz 1956 Published in Penguin Books 1965

Copyright © Peter de Vries, 1956

Made and printed in Great Britain by Cox and Wyman Ltd, London, Reading and Fakenham Set in Interype Baskerville

Parts of a few chapters of this book appeared in a somewhat different form in the New Yorker

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