The Demon Lover & Other Stories

Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books Pty Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia

First published by Jonathan Cape 1945 Published in Penguin Books 1966 Copyright © Elizabeth Bowen, 1945

Made and printed in Great Britain by Cox & Wyman Ltd, London, Reading, and Fakenham Set in Monotype Times

Of the following stories, ‘In the Square’ has appeared in Horizon; ‘Sunday Afternoon’ in Life and Letters; ‘The Cheery Soul’, ‘The Demon Lover’ and ‘Green Holly’ in the Listener; ‘The Inherited Clock’ and ‘Happy Autumn Filelds’ in The Cornhill; ‘Songs My Father Sang Me’ and ‘Pink May’ in English Story; ‘Careless Talk’ in the New Yorker; and ‘Mysterious Kôr’ in Penguin New Writing.

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