Authors: Doris Lessing
Vintage Books Edition, April 1980
Copyright© 1978 by Doris Lessing
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American
Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States
by Random House, Inc., New York.
Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.,
New York in May 1979.
The stories in this book were taken from the following previously published anthologies:
A Man and Two Women,
Copyright © 1958, 1962, 1963 by Doris Lessing. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, a division of Gulf & Western Corporation.
The Habit of Loving,
Copyright © 1975 by Doris Lessing. Reprinted by permission of Thomas Y. Crowell, Publishers.
The Temptation of Jack Orkney and Other Stories,
Copyright © 1963, 1964, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, by Doris Lessing. Published in 1972 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Five,
first published in Great Britain by Michael Joseph Ltd. 1953, Copyright © Doris Lessing 1953.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-
Stories.
I. Title.
PZ
3.
L
56684
st
1980 [
PR
6023.
E
833]
823′.9′14 79-22320
eISBN: 978-0-307-43462-3
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