This collection of short stories by Mavis Gallant was selected by Russell Banks and printed in Canada by McClelland and Stewart Ltd. in 2004 under the title Montreal Stories and simultaneously in the United States by The New York Review of Books under the title Varieties of Exile. 

Thirteen of these fifteen Mavis Gallant stories first appeared in The New Yorker. The exceptions are “1933” which originally appeared as “Déclassé” in Mademoiselle and “The Fenton Child”.