The Soft Voice of the Serpent

First edition

The Soft Voice of the Serpent and Other Stories is a short story collection by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer. It was first published in 1952 by Simon & Schuster, and largely overlaps her first short story collection, Face to Face (1949).^[1]

Stories

• "The Soft Voice of the Serpent"
• "The Catch"
• "The Kindest Thing to Do"
• "The Hour and the Years"
• "The Train From Rhodesia"
• "A Watcher of the Dead"
• "Treasures of the Sea"
• "The Prisoner"
• "Is There Nowhere Else Where We Can Meet?"
• "The Amateurs"
• "A Present For a Good Girl"
• "La Vie Boheme"
• "Ah, Woe Is Me"
• "Another Part of the Sky"
• "The Umbilical Cord"
• "The Talisman"
• "The End of the Tunnel"
• "The Defeated"
• "A Commonplace Story"
• "Monday is Better Than Sunday"
• "In the Beginning"

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