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A Good Man is Hard to Find (The Harcourt Brace Casebook Series in Literature)

Literature & Fiction

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History & Criticism

HARCOURT, BRACE

The Situation Of The Story

Joyce Carol Oates

Henry, James

DORIS LESSING

Shirley Jackson

Katherine Anne Porter

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Zora Neale Hurston

Sarah Orne Jewett

RAYMOND CARVER

Estela Portillo Trambley

JOHN UPDIKE

Louise Erdrich

JOHN CHEEVER

EUDORA WELTY

BERNARD MALAMUD

Bharati, Mukherjee

Anna Lee Walters

John Edgar Wideman

Diana Young

George P. Garrett

Ann Beattie

Toni Cade Bambara

Willa, Cather

Lee K. Abbott

Conrad, Aiken

Charles, Johnson

GLORIA NAYLOR

Anton Pavloviç Çehov

Franz, Kafka

David Herbert, Lawrence

James, Joyce

Edgar-Allan-Poe

Edith, Wharton

Virginia, Woolf

Nathaniel, Hawthorne

Amy, Tan

Mark, Twain

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HERMAN, MELVILLE

Stephen, Crane

Elizabeth Spencer

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William Goyen

TRUMAN CAPOTE

William, Faulkner

Ernest, Hemingway

Ellen Wilbur

REGINALD McKNlGHT

Maria Cruz Viramontes de Marin

Allen Barnett

Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press

The Complete Stories

Contemporary

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS "In these stories the rural South is, for the first time, viewed by a writer who orthodoxy matches her talent. The results are revolutionary."-The New York Times Book Review In 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 stories show O'Connor's unique, grotesque view of life-infused with religious symbolism, haunted by apocalyptic possibility, sustained by the tragic comedy of human behavior, confronted by the necessity of salvation. With these classic stories-including "The Life You Save May Be Your Own," "Good Country People," "The Displaced Person," and seven other acclaimed tales-O'Connor earned a permanent place in the hearts of American readers.

Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

Literary

DOUBLEDAY

Flannery O'Connor's warm, funny, and candid letters to old and new friends, literary figures, fellow Southerners, editors, and others offer an illuminating self-portrait of the writer

Letters of Flannery O'Connor: The Habit of Being

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Vintage

Flannery O'Connor's provocative and critically-acclaimed works have established her reputation as one of America's most original authors, and three of them are available in this collection: "Wise Blood, The Violent Bear It Away" and "Everything That Rises Must Converge". Afterword by author Dorothy Allison.

UC Three By Flannery O'Connor

Signet

First published in 1955, The Violent Bear It Away is now a landmark in American literature. It is a dark and absorbing example of the Gothic sensibility and bracing satirical voice that are united in Flannery O'Conner's work. In it, the orphaned Francis Marion Tarwater and his cousins, the schoolteacher Rayber, defy the prophecy of their dead uncle--that Tarwater will become a prophet and will baptize Rayber's young son, Bishop. A series of struggles ensues: Tarwater fights an internal battle against his innate faith and the voices calling him to be a prophet while Rayber tries to draw Tarwater into a more "reasonable" modern world. Both wrestle with the legacy of their dead relatives and lay claim to Bishop's soul. O'Connor observes all this with an astonishing combination of irony and compassion, humor and pathos. The result is a novel whose range and depth reveal a brilliant and innovative writers acutely alert to where the sacred lives and to where it does not.

The Violent Bear It Away

Faber&Faber

This collection of nine short stories by Flannery O'Connor was published posthumously in 1965. The flawed characters of each story are fully revealed in apocalyptic moments of conflict and violence that are presented with comic detachment. The title story is a tragicomedy about social pride, racial bigotry, generational conflict, false liberalism, and filial dependence. The protagonist, Julian Chestny, is hypocritically disdainful of his mother's prejudices, but his smug selfishness is replaced with childish fear when she suffers a fatal stroke after being struck by a black woman she has insulted out of oblivious ignorance rather than malice. Similarly, ''The Comforts of Home'' is about an intellectual son with an Oedipus complex. Driven by the voice of his dead father, the son accidentally kills his sentimental mother in an attempt to murder a harlot. The other stories are ''A View of the Woods,'' ''Parker's Back,'' ''The Enduring Chill,'' ''Greenleaf,'' ''The Lame Shall Enter First,'' ''Revelation,'' and ''Judgment Day.'' 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 tragic, the beautiful and the grotesque; each carries her highly individual stamp and could have been written by no one else.

Everything That Rises Must Converge

British & Irish

Faber and Faber Limited, 1968

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The American short story master Flannery O'Connor's haunting first novel of faith, false prophets, and redemptive wisdom.\nWise 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 his inborn, desperate fate. He falls under the spell of a "blind" street preacher named Asa Hawks and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter, Sabbath Lily. In an ironic, malicious gesture of his own non-faith, and to prove himself a greater cynic than Hawks, Motes founds the Church Without Christ, but is still thwarted in his efforts to lose God. He meets Enoch Emery, a young man with "wise blood," who leads him to a mummified holy child and whose crazy maneuvers are a manifestation of Motes's existential struggles.\nThis tale of redemption, retribution, false prophets, blindness, blindings, and wisdom gives us one of the most riveting characters in American fiction.

Wise Blood (The Faber Library)

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