The Poorhouse Fair

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

First published in the U.S.A. 1958

Published in Great Britain by Victor Gollancz 1959 Published in Penguin Books 1968 Copyright © John Updike, 1958

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

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