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A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
Category: Fiction
This now classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor as one of the most original and provocative writers to emerge from the South. Her apocalyptic vision of life is expressed through grotesque, often comic situations in which the principal character faces a problem of salvation: the grandmother, in the titl ...Show more
A Good Man is Hard to Find: Faber Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
A family sets out on a road trip in the American South. The grandmother suggests they change course in order to avoid "The Misfit", an escaped convict who's reportedly heading towards Florida. But when their car turns over in a ditch, who should they flag down for help but the very man whose picture the ...Show more
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Category: Fiction
ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN SHORT STORY COLLECTIONSIn 1955, with this short story collection, Flannery O'Connor firmly laid claim to her place as one of the most original and provocative writers of her generation. Steeped in a Southern Gothic tradition that would become synonymous with her name, these ...Show more
A Prayer Journal by Flannery O'Connor
Category: Fiction
"I would like to write a beautiful prayer," writes the young Flannery O'Connor in this deeply spiritual journal, recently discovered among her papers in Georgia. "There is a whole sensible world around me that I should be able to turn to Your praise." Written between 1946 and 1947 while O'Connor was a s ...Show more
Collected Works by O'CONNOR FLANNERY
Category: Languages and Reference
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. ...Show more
Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Category: Fiction
This is the complete collection of stories from one of the most original and powerful American writers of the twentieth-century. Including "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and "Everything That Rises Must Converge", this collection also contains several stories only available in this volume.
Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
Category: Fiction
Flannery O'Connor was working on Everything That Rises Must Converge at the time of her death. This collection is an exquisite legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she scrutinizes territory familiar to her readers: race, faith, and morality. The stories encompass the comic and the ...Show more
Mystery and Manners by Flannery O'Connor
Category: Classic
At her death in 1964, O'Connor left behind a body of unpublished essays and lectures as well as a number of critical articles that had appeared in scattered publications during her too-short lifetime. The keen writings comprising Mystery and Manners, selected and edited by O'Connor's lifelong friends Sa ...Show more
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor by Flannery O'Connor
Category: Short Stories
The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime - Everything That R ...Show more
The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
A brilliant, innovative novel, acutely alert to where the sacred lives and where it does notFirst published in 1960, "The Violent Bear It Away "is a landmark in American literature a dark and absorbing example of the Gothic sensibility and bracing satirical voice that are united in Flannery O'Connor's w ...Show more
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
Flannery O'Connor's haunting first novel of faith, false prophets, and redemptive wisdom """Wise Blood," Flannery O'Connor's astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against hi ...Show more