Life Times: Stories - Table of Contents - About the Author & Story List

Sep 21, 2026

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Life Times: Stories presents a collection of narrative works by Nadine Gordimer, organized through a detailed table of contents. The contents list multiple short stories, including titles such as The Soft Voice of the Serpent, Six Feet of the Country, Friday’s Footprint, and Jump. Front-matter elements cover about-the-author and title-page/copyright pages. Promotional excerpts from reviews emphasize Gordimer’s lucid English prose and the range of themes spanning political activism, race relations, love, family, memory, home, displacement, and everyday life.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryStory & Novel

FormatPDF

Pages320

Reading Time8 h 13 min

AccessFree to download

About the Author

The Soft Voice of the Serpent

Six Feet of the Country

Not for Publication

Friday’s Footprint

Livingstone ’s Companions

A Soldier ’s Embrace

Something Out There

Jump

Loot

Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black

Stories Since 2007

Available from Penguin

Table of Contents ABOUT THE AUTHOR Title Page Copyright Page The Soft Voice of the Serpent Six Feet of the Country Not for Publication Friday’s Footprint Livingstone ’s Companions A Soldier ’s Embrace Something Out There Jump Loot Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black Stories Since 2007 AVAILABLE FROM PENGUIN Praise for Life Times: Stories “A welcome collection by a master of English prose—lucid and precisely written.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Highly recommended; these powerful and serious stories span the career to date ofa critically acclaimed, prize-winning author.... The themes in these pieces include political activism, race relations, love, family and relationships, remembrances of times past, the notion of home and being transplanted elsewhere, everyday life, and much more.... Gordimer ’s characters and situations are complex and multifaceted, and it is a testament to her literary skill that she can pack so much depth of meaning into each story.” —Library Journal “For those new to Gordimer, Life Times is a marvelous introduction to her writing. For those who know her work, it is a worthy reminder of the enduring power of her art.... What ultimately makes Gordimer ’s stories matter is her extraordinary ability to get beneath our skin, forcing us to acknowledge our own uncomfortable fellowship with her humanly flawed characters.” —BookPage “[Gordimer] is incredibly gifted at revealing the most subtle character details. . . . These stories offera fascinating portrait of contemporary South Africa. What they reveal, above all, is a writer willing to face issues of cruelty, hypocrisy, and despair, and refusing to back down.” —The Dallas Morning News “This Nobel Prize – winning South African writer is as vital and independent as she has ever been. Boundaries in her fiction and politics exist to be challenged.... In her work, as in her life, [Gordimer] recognizes all the compelling reasons for despair that there are in the world and refuses to be intimidated.” —The Telegraph (London) “Daring . . . Gordimer ’s are stories of the human soul—regardless of the color of the skin it comes wrapped in.... [Her] writing is a humane intervention between the two factions of what seemed, at times, a hopelessly divided society. Her characters are messengers who could cross boundaries in the imagination that would have been forbidden in reality.... Thrilling.” —The Independent (London) “[Albert] Camus ’s statement ‘The moment when I am no longer more than a writer, I will cease to write ’ helps to explain the vitality of this extraordinary writer and the moral gaze she has cast—archand rigorous—over literature and politics in the past sixty years.” —The Guardian (London)

FAQs

What does the table of contents include in Life Times: Stories?

It lists about-the-author material and a sequence of individual story titles, followed by a section noting Stories Since 2007 and availability from Penguin.

Which short story titles are shown in the contents?

The contents include titles such as The Soft Voice of the Serpent, Six Feet of the Country, Not for Publication, Friday’s Footprint, and Jump, among others.

What themes do the review excerpts say the stories cover?

The excerpts describe themes including political activism, race relations, love, family and relationships, remembrances of times past, the notion of home, being transplanted elsewhere, and everyday life.

Sep 21, 2026

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