The Habit of Being
- 624 pages
- 22 hours of reading
Contains letters written by Flannery O'Connor.
Flannery O. Connor Books
Flannery O’Connor was a distinctive American author, celebrated for her unique perspective on Southern life and deeply ingrained Catholic beliefs. Her works are characterized by sharp humor, unsettling imagery, and explorations of grace and redemption amidst settings rife with violence and the grotesque. O’Connor masterfully crafted characters grappling with faith, sin, and the divine, often in unexpected and dramatic moments. Her writing continues to captivate readers with its intensity and unflinching honesty.
Mystery and Manners
- 237 pages
- 9 hours of reading
The essays and articles in this volume are concerned mainly with the art of fiction--its quality, in regional writing; its nature and its aims; and its relatino to the writer's religion.
The Geranium and Other Writings
- 580 pages
- 21 hours of reading
Featuring thirty-one stories, this collection includes twelve previously unpublished works by O'Connor that were not part of her two lifetime collections, "Everything That Rises Must Converge" and "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." The anthology showcases her distinctive voice and keen observations of human nature, offering readers a deeper understanding of her literary contributions and the themes she explored throughout her career.
Complete Stories
- 576 pages
- 21 hours of reading
This is the complete collection of stories from one of the most original and powerful American writers of the 20th 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.
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
Interviews with the author of Wise Blood, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, and Everything That Rises Must Converge
Everything that rises must converge
- 269 pages
- 10 hours of reading
Nine stories of the fierceness and struggle of life among white people in the new South.
At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of superior 20th-century writers that includes Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Isaac Babel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, Sean O'Faolain, Graham Greene, Robert Penn Warren, Colette, John Updike, Donald Barthelme, and James Thurber. (Regrettably, J. D. Salinger is not included due to lack of permission.) Here is a truly remarkable collection of this century's short stories that readers from all over the world will read with delight.
Wise Blood
- 176 pages
- 7 hours of reading
Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's first novel, is the story of Hazel Motes who, released from the armed services, returns to the evangelical Deep South.
Flannery O’Connor was among the greatest American writers of the second half of the 20th century; she was a writer in the Southern tradition of Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, and Carson McCullers, who wrote such classic novels and short stories as Wise Blood, The Violent Bear It Away, and “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” She is perhaps as well known for her tantalizing brand of Southern Gothic humor as she is for her Catholicism. That these tendencies should be so happily married in her fiction is no longer a surprise. The real surprise is learning that this much beloved icon of American literature did not set out to be a fiction writer, but a cartoonist. This seems to be the last well-kept secret of her creative life.
