African Stories Year First Published: 1965 First Published by: Simon and Schuster Category: Short Stories This Edition: American first edition

From the book jacket:

This book includes every story written by Doris Lessing about Africa: all of her first collection, This Was the Old Chief's Country (unavailable in America); the four tales about Africa from Five (also unavailable); the African stories from The Habit of Loving and A Man and Two Women and four stories never before collected.

This, then, is Doris Lessing's Africa - where she lived for twenty-five years and where so much of her interest and concern still resides. Here, as she sees them, are the complexities, the agonies and joys, the textures of African life and society.

The collection, bridging as it does Mrs. Lessing's entire writing career, contains much of her most extraordinary work. Beyond that, it is a brilliant portrait of a world that is vital to all of us, shadowy to most of us - perceived by an artist of the first rank writing with passion and honesty about her native land.

It is a central book in the work of one of the most important of today's writers.

• British Edition
  
• Audio: Doris Lessing Reads The Old Chief Mshlanga from African Stories
  
• Audio: Doris Lessing Reads No Witchcraft for Sale and The New Man from African Stories

In this Edition:

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

Note: Stories in italics were not included in the British first edition.