The Spider’s House
Up Above the World
Points in Time
NOVELLA
Too Far from Home
STORIES
The Delicate Prey
A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard
The Time of Friendship
Things Gone and Things Still Here
A Distant Episode
Midnight Mass
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Without Stopping Days, Tangier Journal: 1987–1989
TRAVEL Yallah!
Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue
TRANSLATIONS
A Life Full of Holes (Driss ben Hamed Charhadi)
Love with a Few Hairs (Mohammed Mrabet)
The Lemon (Mohammed Mrabet)
The Boy Who Set the Fire (Mohammed Mrabet)
Jean Genet in Tangier (Mohammed Choukri)
For Bread Alone (Mohammed Choukri)
Look and Move On (Mohammed Mrabet)
Harmless Poisons, Blameless Sins (Mohammed Mrabet)
The Big Mirror (Mohammed Mrabet)
The Oblivion Seekers (Isabelle Eberhardt)
VERSE
The Thicket of Spring Next to Nothing
Credits
Cover photograph by Simon Wilkinson/Getty Images
Copyright
THE SHELTERING SKY. Copyright © 1949, renewed 1977 by Paul Bowles. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
FIRST HARPER PERENNIAL MODERN CLASSICS EDITION PUBLISHED 2005.
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The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:
Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999.
The sheltering sky / Paul Bowles.—1st ed.
ISBN 0-06-019916-4
1. Americans—Morocco—Fiction. 2. Morocco— Fiction. I. Title.
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