Alice Munro

Fiction, from 2011: “If they had heard even the kitchen door they might have had a moment to prepare.”

Fiction by Alice Munro: “None of the people she worked with knew what had happened. Or, if they did, they didn’t let on. . . . Also, the job they had found for her was in a town a good distance away from where she used to live.”

Fiction, from 2005: “He does not know if the men are mocking his father or if his father is playing a trick on them. Or if it is a trick at all.”

A poem begins this story describing the overnight hike of the C.G.I.T. (Canadian Girls in Training) that was led by Miss Mary Johnstone, and that this year…

A short story by Alice Munro explores the letter correspondence between a librarian in Carstairs, Ontario, and a local soldier, away at the front, during the 1918 influenza pandemic.

Fiction, from 1990: “I used to dream about my mother, and though the details in the dream varied, the surprise in it was always the same.”

Georgia lives on a farm in Ontario, Canada with her former creative writing instructor. One fall, on impulse, she decides to take a ferry across to …

Story about 3 generations of mothers and daughters. Phemie's parents lived on a farm in Canada. Her mother, Marietta, prayed 3 times a day. …

Fiction, from 1985: “It seems to me now that we invented characters for our children. We had them firmly set to play their parts.”

Fiction, from 1981.

A short story by Alice Munro, about a teen-ager’s coming of age while working as a turkey gutter, in Ontario, for the Christmas season.

Fiction, from 1980.

Fiction, from 1977: “She felt as if a hand were clapped against her chest, not to hurt but to astonish her, to take her breath away.”