Unflinching in their candor, Lessing’s short stories explore the complexities of love in contemporary life. Doris Lessing’s stories show a great range of ability: whether pouring scorn on the seducing male, showing woman’s cool appraisal of the nuisance of sex, putting succinctly the class education dilemma, describing bugs or spinsters, dogs or potters, each story is a complete whole which not only tells of an event but also illustrates some new facet of human feeling….

CONTENTS:
1. One Off the Short List
2. The Story of Two Dogs
3. The Sun Between Their Feet
4. A Woman on a Roof
5. How I Finally Lost My Heart
6. A Man and Two Women
7. A Room
8. England versus England
9. Two Potters
10. Between Men
11. A Letter from Home
12. Our Friend Judith
13. Each Other
14. Homage for Isaac Babel
15. Outside the Ministry
16. Dialogue
17. Notes for a Case History
18. The New Man
19. To Room Nineteen