The Stories of Paul Bowles

  Grateful acknowledgment is made to Black Sparrow Press for permission to reprint certain stories contained herein.

  A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2001 by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

  Dates provided are the year of the story’s first publication.

  THE STORIES OF PAUL BOWLES.

  Copyright © 2001 by the Estate of Paul Bowles.

  Previously published material copyright © 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1967, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1988, 1993 by Paul Bowles.

  Introduction copyright © 2001 by Robert Stone.

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