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Flannery O'Connor
Also known as: O'Connor, Flannery, 1925-1964., FLANNERY O’CONNOR
O'Connor was American writer, particularly acclaimed for her stories which combined comic with tragic and brutal. Along with authors like Carson McCullers and Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor belonged to the Southern Gothic tradition that focused on the decaying South and its damned people. O'Connor's body of work was small, consisting of only thirty-one stories, two novels, and some speeches and letters.
silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled.
— from A good man is hard to find
Most acclaimed
A good man is hard to find
The collection that established O’Connor’s reputation as one of the American masters of the short story. The volume contains the celebrated title story, a tale of the murderous fugitive The Misfit, as well as “The Displaced Person” and eight other stories.
Great American Short Stories
Washington Irving -- The legend of sleepy hollow -- The spectre bridegroom -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [Young Goodman Brown]( [Rappaccini's Daughter]( Edgar Allan Poe -- [The murders in the Rue Morgue]( [William Wilson]( [The pit and the pendulum]( [The cask of Amontillado]( Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Captain Kidd's money -- Herman Melville -- Benito Cereno -- The lightning-rod man -- Fitz-James O'Brien -- The diamond lens -- Mark Twain -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County -- The stolen white elephant -- The man who corrupted Hadleyburg -- Bret Harte -- The luck of roaring camp -- Tennessee's partner -- Ambrose Bierce -- [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge]( A horseman in the sky -- Henry James -- The turn of the screw -- The jolly corner -- Sarah Orne Jewett -- The courting of Sister Wisby -- The Hiltons' holiday -- O. Henry -- The love-philtre of Ikey Schoenstein -- One dollar's worth -- Art and the bronco -- The furnished room -- Calloway's code -- Edith Wharton -- The Rembrandt -- The recovery -- Stephen Crane -- Maggie -- The bride comes to yellow sky -- Willa Cather -- The clemency of the court -- Lou, the prophet -- A night at Greenway Court -- Jack London -- To the man on trail -- The son of the wolf -- The wife of a king -- William Faulkner -- [That Evening Sun]( Ernest Hemingway -- The killers -- John Steinbeck -- The leader of the people -- Flannery O'Connor -- A late encounter with the enemy.
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
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