title: Stories (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
author:  Doris Lessing 
description: Lessing is the great realist writer of our time. <b>Diane Johnson, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b>
zlib_text: Doris Lessing
  The Habit Of Loving
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  Digitized by the Internet Archive
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  'One of the most serious, intelligent
  and honest writers of the whole
  postwar generation'
  Sunday Times
  'A writer of real importance. Mrs. Lessing
  knows where to start and where to stop,
  knowledge which most short-story writers
  take a lifetime to acquire. Each story
  gives the impress of an experience that
  is true on more than one level, and the
  best of them are magnificent
  5
  L. A. G. Strong in Spectator
  
  ALSO BY DORIS LESSING
  IN PANTHER BOOKS
  A Man And Two Women
  
  Doris Lessing
  The Habit
  Of Loving
  A Panther Book
  
  The Habit of Loving
  A Panther Book
  First published in Great Britain by
  MacGibbon & Kee Limited 1957
  Panther edition published March 1966
  Copyright © Doris Lessing 1957
  This book shall not, without the
  written consent of the Publishers first given
  be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise
  disposed ofby way of trade in any form
  of binding or cover oth