The Adventures of Augie March

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

First published in the U.S.A. 1953 Published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1954 Published in Penguin Books 1966 Copyright © Saul Bellow, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953

Several portions of this novel appeared in magazines, while it was in progress, in somewhat different form from the final version. Acknowledgement is made to The New Yorker, which published Chapter 25 under the title ‘Interval in a Lifeboat‘; Harper's Bazaar, excerpts from Chapters 15 and 16, with the title ‘The Eagle’; Partisan Review and Perspectives USA, Chapter 5, ‘The Einhorns’; Sewanee Review, Chapter 2, ‘The Coblins’; Hudson Review, Chapter 24, ‘Mintouchian’.

Made and printed in Great Britain by Cox & Wyman Ltd, London, Reading, and Fakenham Set in Linotype Pilgrim

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