The Same Door

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First published in the U.S.A. 1959 Published in Great Britain by André Deutsch 1962 This edition published in Penguin Books 1968 Copyright © John Updike, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957,   1958, 1959, 1968

All of these stories first appeared in the New Yorker. They were written in the order they come here. This edition contains the story ‘Walter Palm’, which was originally published in Pigeon Feathers, as ‘Walter Briggs’.

The lines by T. S. Eliot in the dedication page are quoted from The Elder Statesman, copyright © Thomas Sterns Eliot, 1959, and used by permission of his publishers, Faber & Faber.

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

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