‘Yes. Just them and myself,’ Mr Newman said.

Then he sat down and the policeman picked a pencil from among many on the desk, and began to take down his story. Telling it, Mr Newman felt as though he were setting down a weight which for some reason he had been carrying and carrying.

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First published in the United States of America by Reynal and Hitchcock 1945
First published in Great Britain by Victor Gollancz 1949
Published in Great Britain by Martin Seeker and Warburg 1974
Published in Penguin Books in the United States of America by arrangement with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
Published in Penguin Books 1978
Reprinted with an Introduction by Arthur Miller 1986
Published in Penguin Classics 2009

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