The Progress of Love

{{Short description|Book by Alice Munro}}

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| published = Douglas Gibson Books (McClelland and Stewart), 1986

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| awards = Governor General's Award for English-language fiction (1986)

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| preceded_by = The Moons of Jupiter

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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.Lisa Rochon, "Yvon Rivard honored for French-language fiction: Munro wins top literary prize". The Globe and Mail, May 28, 1987.

The book was originally contracted to Macmillan of Canada, the publisher of Munro's previous two books.{{cite book|last=Panofsky|first=Ruth|title=The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada: Making Books and Mapping Culture|year=2012|publisher=University of Toronto Press|location=Toronto|isbn=9780802098771}} 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.