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First published in the United Kingdom by Methuen Children’s Books Ltd, 1985

First published in the United States of America by Greenwillow Books, 1985

Published by Firebird, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2012

The essay “The Heroic Ideal—A Personal Odyssey” first appeared in
The Lion and the Unicorn, Volume 13, Number 1, June 1989.

Excerpts from “Burnt Norton,” “East Coker,” “The Dry Salvages,” and “Little Gidding,” from FOUR
QUARTETS by T.S. Eliot. Copyright 1936 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company; © renewed
1964 by T.S. Eliot. Copyright 1940, 1941, 1942 by T.S. Eliot. Copyright © renewed 1968, 1969, 1970
by Esme Valerie Eliot. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Excerpt from Dogsbody copyright © Diana Wynne Jones, 1975
Excerpt from A Tale of Time City copyright © Diana Wynne Jones, 1987
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Copyright © Diana Wynne Jones, 1985

Introduction copyright © Garth Nix, 2012

“The Heroic Ideal—A Personal Odyssey” copyright © Diana Wynne Jones, 1988

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