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.

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

Works by Nadine Gordimer Novels The Conservationist Burger's Daughter July's People A Sport of Nature My Son's Story The Pickup Get a Life No Time Like the Present Collections The Soft Voice of the Serpent Loot and Other Stories Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black Related What Happened to Burger's Daughter or How South African Censorship Works