A Separate Peace (24 page)

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 1959 by John Knowles, Inc.

Copyright renewed © 1987 by John Knowles, Inc.

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First Scribner trade paperback edition 2003

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Cover design by John Fulbrook III

Cover illustration by Mark Yankus. Photo of boy by Mark Yankus.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Scribner edition as follows: Knowles, John, date.

A separate peace / by John Knowles. —1st Scribner Classics ed.

p. cm.

1. Prepatory school students—New Hampshire—Fiction. 2. Boys—New Hampshire—Fiction. 3. Friendship—Fiction. 4. Death—Fiction. 5. New Hampshire—Fiction. I. Title.

[PS3561.N68S4 1996]

813' .54—dc20 96-25844

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ISBN-13: 978-0-684-83366-8

ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-5397-0 (Pbk)

ISBN 978-1-4767-7703-0 (eBook)