ALSO BY ALICE MUNRO

The View From Castle Rock

Runaway

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

The Love of a Good Woman

Selected Stories

Open Secrets

Friend of My Youth

The Progress of Love

The Moons of Jupiter

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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A VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES ORIGINAL,

MAY 2007

“The Bear Came Over the Mountain” copyright © 1999

by Alice Munro

Preface copyright © 2007 by Sarah Polley

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