The Progress of Love

The Progress of Love is a book of short stories by Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1986. It won the 1986 Governor General's Award for English Fiction, her third win of that award.

The book was originally contracted to Macmillan of Canada, the publisher of Munro's previous two books. However, when editor Douglas Gibson left the company to join McClelland and Stewart, Munro returned the advance that Macmillan had already paid her, so that she could continue working with Gibson at the new company rather than rebuilding a new relationship with a different editor. The book ultimately became the first title ever released under M&S's new Douglas Gibson Books imprint.

Stories

• "The Progress of Love"
• "Lichen"
• "Monsieur les Deux Chapeaux"
• "Miles City, Montana"
• "Fits"
• "The Moon in the Orange Street Skating Rink"
• "Jesse and Meribeth"
• "Eskimo"
• "Queer Streak"
• "Circle of Prayer"
• "White Dump"

References

1. List of short stories by Alice Munro
2. The Pilgrim's Progress
3. Jean-Honoré Fragonard
4. Alice Munro
5. Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress
6. Alex Epstein (American writer)
7. Committee of Union and Progress
8. The Fake Sound of Progress
9. Who Are You
10. The Price of Progress
11. List of songs recorded by Take That
12. The Rake's Progress
13. Rainbow flag (LGBT)
14. Progressed (EP)
15. Yinka Shonibare
16. The House of Love
17. Oliver Twist
18. Love Actually
19. Anna Moschovakis
20. Farming for Love