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NADINE GORDIMER'S WORKS

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In describing Gordimer's works it is best to begin with an important proviso. Although Gordimer's technical expertise is considered elsewhere in this essay, in more detail, Gordimer is a prolific writer in several different genres, and her insistence that the relationship between her themes and the techniques of her writing is inseparable implies that the reader should always consider form and content together.

Face to Face: Short Stories. Johannesburg: Silver Leaf, 1949. Gordimer's first collection includes “The Soft Voice of the Serpent,” “Ah, Woe Is Me,” “The Umbilical Cord,” “The Battlefield at No. 29,” “In the Beginning,” “A Commonplace Story,” “The Amateurs,” “A Present for a Good Girl,” “The Train from Rhodesia,” “La Vie Bohème,” “Is There Nowhere Else Where We Can Meet?,” “The Kindest Thing to Do,” “The Last of the Oldfashioned Girls,” “No Luck...

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1. Introduction
2. Chronology
3. About Nadine Gordimer
4. Nadine Gordimer At Work
5. Nadine Gordimer's Era
6. Nadine Gordimer's Works
7. Nadine Gordimer As Studied
8. Further Reading
9. Copyright

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