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Copyright © 1944, 1945, 1972 by Glenway Wescott

Introduction copyright © 2004 by David Leavitt

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Cover image: Antiaircraft guns, Athens, 1941; courtesy of Bundesarchiv, Germany

Cover design: Katy Homans

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Wescott, Glenway, 1901—

Apartment in Athens / Glenway Wescott; introduction by David Leavitt.

p. cm. — (New York Review Books classics)

ISBN 1-59017-081-4 (pbk.:alk. paper)

1. Greece—History—Occupation, 1941—1944—Fiction. 2. Triangles

Interpersonal relations)—Fiction. 3. Germans—Greece—Fiction. 4. Apartment

houses—Fiction. 5. Athens (Greece)—Fiction. I. Title. II. Series.

PS3545.E827A845 2004 813'.52—dc22

2004003860

eISBN 978-1-59017-482-1

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