Life at the Top

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

First published by Eyre & Spottiswoode 1962 Published in Penguin Books 1965

Copyright © John Braine, 1962

Made and printed in Great Britain by Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd, Aylesbury, Bucks

Set in Linotype Baskerville

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