Mrs. Plum Summary
Ezekiel Mphahlele

Mrs. Plum Summary

First published in Mphahlele's 1967 short story collection In Corner B, "Mrs. Plum" was written during the early 1960s while the author was living in Paris. The collection, which includes stories about life in Nigeria and South Africa, was published by the East African Publishing House in Nairobi, Kenya, though the author had taken a teaching position in Denver, Colorado, by that time. Such was the life of this homeless writer. Mphahlele's work had...

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