The Soft Voice of the Serpent And Other Stories

Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex Australia: Penguin Books Pty Ltd, 762 Whitehorse Road, Mitcham, Victoria __
First published by Gollancz 1953 Published in Penguin Books 1962 __
Copyright © Nadine Gordimer, 1950, 1951, 1952 ‘A Watcher of the Dead’ copyright © The New Yorker Magazine Inc., 1951 __
Made and printed in Great Britain by Cox and Wyman Ltd London, Reading, and Fakenham Set in Monotype Baskerville

Certain of the stories which are included in this collection originally appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The Yale Review, and The Virginia Quarterly

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