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THE
SEVEN
STAIRS

Stuart Brent

THE

Houghton Mifflin Company Boston

SEVEN

The Riverside Press Cambridge

STAIRS

Nineteen Sixty-Two

First Printing

Copyright © 1962 by Stuart Brent

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The quotation on pages 89 and 90 is from The

Literary Situation by Malcolm Cowley. Copyright

1954 by Malcolm Cowley. Reprinted by permission

of the Viking Press, Inc.

The Riverside Press

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