African Stories

Long considered Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing’s best collection of short stories, African Stories—a central book in the work of a truly beloved writer—is now back in print. This beautiful collection is an homage to her twenty-five years spent in Africa and a brilliant portrait of African life.

This is Doris Lessing’s Africa—where she lived for twenty-five years and where so much of her interest and concern still resides. Here in these stories, Lessing explores the complexities, the agonies and joys, and the textures of life in Africa.

First published in 1965, and out of print since the 1990s, this collection contains much of Ms. Lessing’s most extraordinary work. It is a brilliant portrait of a world that is vital to all of us—perceived by an artist of the first rank writing with passion and honesty about her native land.

African Stories includes every story Doris Lessing has written about Africa: all of her first collection, This Was the Old Chief’s Country; the four tales about Africa from Five; the African stories from The Habit of Loving and A Man and Two Women; and four stories featured only in this edition.

African Stories represents some of Doris Lessing’s best work—and is an essential book by one of the twentieth century’s most important authors.

Table oc Contents:

The Black Madonna

The Trinket Box

The Pig

Traitors

The Old Chief Mshlanga

A Sunrise on the Veld

No Witchcraft for Sale

The Second Hut

The Nuisance

The De Wets Come to Kloof Grange

Little Tembi

Old John's Place

'Leopard' George

Winter in July

A Home for the Highland Cattle

Eldorado

The Antheap

Hunger

The Words He Said

Lucy Grange

A Mild Attack of Locusts

Flavours of Exile

Getting Off the Altitude

A Road to the Big City

Flight

Plants and Girls

The Sun Between Their Feet

A Letter from Home

The New Man

The Story of Two Dogs

The Story of a Non-marrying Man*

Spies I have Known*

*Not included in the original edition

Note: The American edition contained more stories. The complete British edition of Doris Lessing's African short stories was published by Michael Joseph in 1973 in two volumes:

This Was The Old Chief's Country - Collected African Stories, Volume 1 (not to be confused with the 1951 edition of the same name)

The Sun Between Their Feet - Collected African Stories, Volume 2