This classic collectionnow revised and expandedis the perfect introduction to Nobel Laureate Alice Munro’s brilliant, revelatory short stories, in which she unfolds the wordless secrets that lie at the center of human experience.

The stories in this volume span Munro’s career: The title stories from her collectionsThe Moons of Jupiter;The Progress of Love; and Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage; Differently, fromFriend of My Youth;Carried Away, fromOpen Secrets;and (new to this edition)”In Sight of the Lake,” fromDear Life. Vintage Munroalsoincludes the text of the Nobel Prize Presentation Speech, given by Peter Englund, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy.