ALICE MUNRO Alice Munro was born in 1931 and is the author of thirteen collections of stories, most recently Dear Life, and a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She has received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the WHSmith Book Award in the UK, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Who Do You Think You Are? (previously published as The Beggar Maid), and has been awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2009 for her overall contribution to fiction on the world stage, and in 2013 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and other pub lications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives in Port Hope, Ontario, near Lake Ontario in Canada.
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Selected Stories: 1995–2009 Dear Life Too Much Happiness The View from Castle Rock Runaway Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage The Love of a Good Woman Selected Stories: 1968–1994 Open Secrets Friend of My Youth The Progress of Love Who Do You Think You Are? (Previously published as The Beggar Maid) Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You Lives of Girls and Women Dance of the Happy Shades
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Copyright © Alice Munro 1982 Introduction copyright © Alice Munro 1986 Alice Munro has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this Work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 First published by Macmillan of Canada, a division of Gage Publishing Ltd. 1982 First published in Great Britain by Penguin Books in 1983 First published in Vintage in 2007 This edition reissued by Vintage in 2021 penguin.co.uk/vintage A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 9780099458364 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Clays Ltd, Elcograf S.p.A. The authorised representative in the EEA is Penguin Random House Ireland, Morrison Chambers, 32 Nassau Street, Dublin D02 YH68 Penguin Random House is committed to a sustainable future for our business, our readers and our planet. This book is made from Forest Stewardship Council® certified paper.