The Soft Voice of the Serpent
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.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"