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Copyright © 1935 by Herbert Reichner Verlag

Copyright renewed 1963 by Elias Canetti

English translation copyright © 1947 by Elias Canetti

Copyright renewed 1963,1974 by Elias Canetti

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Printed in the United States of America

First published in 1935 by Herbert Reichner Verlag, Germany, as Die Blendung

First English edition published under the title Auto-da-Fé

First American edition published under the tide The Tower of Babel

First Farrar, Straus and Giroux edition, 1984

First paperback edition, 1984

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The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows: 
Canetti, Elias.
       Auto-da-fé.

Translation of Die Blendung.
First American ed. published under title: The Tower of Babel.
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Continuum 1947.
I.Title. II. Title: Tower of Babel.
PT2605.A58B553 1984
833'.912                                                        84-10164