A Century of South African short stories

Plot

Acknowledgments --Introduction / Jean Marquard --Umtagati / William Charles Scully --The pool / Sir Percy Fitzpatrick --Uncle Abe's big shoot / Ernest Glanville --Like unto like / Perceval Gibbon --The drink of the dead / Frederick C. Cornell --The black death / Arthur Shearly Cripps --Eighteen-ninety-nine / Olive Schreiner --Desolation / Pauline Smith --The schoolmaster / Pauline Smith --A Bekkersdal Marathon / Herman Charles Bosman --Unto dust / Herman Charles Bosman --The music-maker / Herman Charles Bosman --Down on the farm / William Plomer --The cannibals' bird / Frank Brownlee --One of the three / Peter Abrahams --The quarry / Alan Paton --The train from Rhodesia / Nadine Gordimer --The bridegroom / Nadine Gordimer --A sack for ninepence / Sarah Gertrude Millin --Thanks to Mrs Parsons / Berthan Goudvis --The turban / A.C. Jordan --Fresh fields / Dan Jacobson --Droit de Seigneur / Dan Jacobson --The suit / Can Themba --The little stint / Jack Cope --The deep river / Bessie Head --Flavours of exile / Doris Lessing --The old chief Mshlanga / Doris Lessing --Lucy Grange / Doris Lessing --The coffin / Uys Krige --The visits / Richard Rive --The Hajji / Ahmed Essop --Joburg, Sis! / Barney Simon --The park / James Matthews --Pyro Protram / Peter Wilhelm --For no reason / Sheila Roberts --The party / Mbulelo Vizikhungo Mzamane --Biographies