Pearson Education Limited Edinburgh Gate, Harlow, Essex CM20 2JE, England and Associated Companies throughout the world. ISBN 0 582 41807 0 ‘The Ash-Tree’, ‘A School Story’, The Diary of Mr Poynter’ (“The Curtains’), ‘An Evening’s Entertainment’ (The Flies’), ‘Rats’ (‘The Locked Room’), ‘The Mezzotint’ (‘The Painting of—ngley Hall’), ‘Lost Hearts’, ‘Martin’s Close’ (‘Martin’s Lake’). and The Tractate Middoth’ (‘The Two Cousins’). first published by Edward Arnold 1931 The adaptation first published by Penguin Books 1993 Published by Addison Wesley Longman Limited and Penguin Books Ltd. 1998 New edition first published 1999
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