The Harmless People

Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books Inc., 7110 Ambassador Road, Baltimore, Maryland 21207, U.S.A. Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia

First published in the U.S.A. 1959 Published in Great Britain by Secker & Warburg 1959 Published in Penguin Books 1969 Copyright © Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, 1959

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

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