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Flannery O'Connor Bibliography
The bibliography of Flannery O'Connor includes two novels, more than thirty short stories, and several collections. Novels * ''Wise Blood'' (1952) * ''The Violent Bear It Away'' (1960) Collections * ''A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories'' (1955) * ''Three'' (1962) * ''Everything That Rises Must Converge'' (1965) * '' The Complete Stories'' (1971) * ''Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works'' (1988) * ''Flannery O'Connor: The Cartoons'' (2012) Short stories * "The Geranium" (1946) * " The Barber" (1948) * "Wildcat" (1970) * "The Crop" (1971) * " The Turkey", "The Capture" (1948) * " The Train" (1948) * "The Peeler" (1949) * " The Heart of the Park" (1949) * " A Stroke of Good Fortune", "A Woman on the Stairs" (1949) * " Enoch and the Gorilla" (1952) * "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" (1953) * " A Late Encounter with the Enemy" (1953) * " The Life You Save May Be Your Own" (1953) * " The River" (1953) * "A Circle in the Fire" (1954) * " The Displaced Person" (1954) * " A Temple of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flannery O'Connor
Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925August 3, 1964) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. She wrote two novels and 31 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. She was a Southern writer who often wrote in a sardonic Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque characters, often in violent situations. The unsentimental acceptance or rejection of the limitations or imperfections or differences of these characters (whether attributed to disability, race, crime, religion or sanity) typically underpins the drama. Her writing reflected her Roman Catholic faith and frequently examined questions of morality and ethics. Her posthumously compiled ''Complete Stories'' won the 1972 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and has been the subject of enduring praise. Early life and education Childhood O'Connor was born on March 25, 1925, in Savannah, Georgia, the only child of Edward Francis O'Connor, a real esta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Heart Of The Park
''The Heart of the Park'' is a short story written by Flannery O'Connor. Background "The Heart of the Park" was originally published in the February 1949 issue of ''Partisan Review''. It was not collected in either of O'Connor's collections of short stories published during her lifetime, but was included in her "Complete Stories" after her death by her longtime editor, Robert Giraux. The story was not originally collected because she later adapted the stories into her first novel, "Wise Blood," where "The Heart of the Park" was partially edited into its own chapter. "Wise Blood" was published in May 1952. Summary Enoch Emery is a gate guard at a park, who is waiting for the second-shift guard to arrive at work so he can leave. Every day when he finishes working, Enoch goes into the park and hides in some bushes, watching people swim at the public pool. He particularly likes to watch women swim and sunbathe. On this day, he thinks about something that he has hidden in the mid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenleaf (short Story)
"Greenleaf" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor published in 1956 in ''The Kenyon Review'', and later appeared in her short story collection ''Everything That Rises Must Converge'' that was published in 1965 after her death in August 1964. The work garnered the author's first O. Henry Award first prize in 1957. Plot summary Mrs. May owns a farm on which she hires Mr. Greenleaf to work because her sons are not interested in farm work. To her dismay, both live at home and are unmarried. One sells insurance to African Americans while the other is a scholar and teacher at a university. Both Mrs. May and Mr. Greenleaf's wife, Mrs. Greenleaf, consider themselves Christians. Mrs. May, however, has a somewhat smug morality based upon outward success, while Mrs. Greenleaf secretly practices faith healing and recognizes herself as a sinner. When no one is nearby, Mrs. Greenleaf prays aloud that Jesus "stab her in the heart," implying that she must change her sinful heart. The Greenleafs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Can't Be Any Poorer Than Dead
''The Complete Stories'' is a collection of short stories by Flannery O'Connor. It was published in 1971 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It comprises all the stories in ''A Good Man Is Hard to Find'' and ''Everything That Rises Must Converge'' plus several previously unavailable stories. ''Complete Stories'' won the 1972 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction."National Book Awards – 1972" . Retrieved 2012-03-30. (With essays by Alice Elliott Dark and others (five) from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) Internet visitors named it the "Best of the National Book Awards" Alice Elliott Dark, et al [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Country People
"Good Country People" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor. It was published in 1955 in her short story collection ''A Good Man Is Hard to Find''. A devout Roman Catholic, O'Connor often used religious themes in her work. Many considered this to be one of her greatest stories. Plot summary Mrs. Hopewell owns a farm in rural Georgia which she runs with the assistance of her tenants, Mr. and Mrs. Freeman. Mrs. Hopewell's daughter, Joy, is thirty-two years old and lost her leg in a childhood shooting accident. Joy is an atheist and has a Ph.D. in philosophy but seems non-sensible to her mother, and in an act of rebellion against her mother, Joy changed her name to "Hulga," the ugliest name Mrs. Hopewell can imagine. A Bible salesman, who introduces himself as Manley Pointer, visits the family and is invited for dinner despite the Hopewells' lack of interest in purchasing Bibles. Mrs. Hopewell believes Manley is "good country people." While leaving the home, Pointer invites Joy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Artificial Nigger
"The Artificial Nigger" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor. It was published in 1955 in her short story collection ''A Good Man Is Hard to Find''. The title refers to statues popular in the Jim Crow-era Southern United States, depicting grotesque minstrelsy characters. Like most of her other works, the story reflects O'Connor's Roman Catholic beliefs and acts as a parable. Plot summary Mr. Head and his orphaned ten-year-old grandson, Nelson, live in the Georgia countryside. Mr. Head is taking Nelson to visit Atlanta for the first time since Nelson's birth. Nelson is sure he will enjoy the city, but his grandfather tells him that he is naive, and pokes fun at him during their early-morning train ride into town, when Nelson sees a Black person for the first time. After seeing some impressive buildings and shops, Mr. Head shows Nelson the less-impressive side of the city; Nelson claims that they lead to Hell. They get lost, and walk through a predominantly Black section of tow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Temple Of The Holy Ghost
"A Temple of the Holy Ghost" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor. It was written in 1953 and published in 1955 in her short story collection ''A Good Man Is Hard to Find'' and is one of O'Connor's few explicitly Catholic stories. A devout Roman Catholic, O'Connor often used religious themes in her work, but more commonly described rural Southern Protestants as her main characters. Plot summary The story is told from the perspective of a 12-year-old girl and involves a visit from a pair of her 14-year-old cousins, Roman Catholic convent school girls who are mostly interested in clothes and boys. The cousins were recently lectured by the nuns about preserving their bodies as "temples of the holy ghost," a reference to the Bible passage from . The young girl's mother arranges for a pair of neighborhood boys who are training to be preachers to accompany the girl's two cousins to a fair but does not allow the 12-year-old to join them. While picking up the girls, the boys are mildly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Displaced Person
"The Displaced Person" is a novella by Flannery O'Connor. It was published in 1955 in her short story collection ''A Good Man Is Hard to Find''. A devout Roman Catholic, O'Connor often used religious themes in her work and her own family hired a displaced person after World War II. Plot summary The story takes place on a farm in Georgia, just after World War II in the 1940s. The owner of the farm, Mrs. McIntyre, contacts a Catholic priest to find her a "displaced person" to work as a farm hand. The priest finds a Polish refugee named Mr. Guizac who relocates with his family to the farm. Because the displaced person is quite industrious, the Shortleys, a family of white farm hands, feel threatened and try to manipulate Mrs. McIntyre into firing Guizac, but Mrs. McIntyre makes a decision to fire Shortley instead because of his unsatisfactory work. Formerly a staunch atheist, Mrs. Shortley has taken to reading the Bible and experiences a vision of the Ophanim. Soon afterwards she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Circle In The Fire
"A Circle in the Fire" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor. It was written in 1954 and published in 1955 in her short story collection ''A Good Man is Hard to Find''. A devout Roman Catholic, O'Connor often used religious themes in her work. Plot summary The story involves Mrs. Cope, the owner of a farm in the South, who is visited by three teenage boys, including Powell Boyd, the son of one of her former farm workers. Mrs. Cope, her workers, and her daughter are all suspicious of the boys. The boys hitchhiked from Atlanta and were hoping to spend some time on the farm and ride her horses during their vacation. Mrs. Cope gives them some food, but discourages them from staying. The boys do not listen to her, riding her horses, messing with cattle and lying to her. She threatens to send him to D.A and tells them she owns the farm and adjacent woods and that they must leave. The story ends with the boys laughing prophetically while setting fire to the woods, and the scene is remi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The River (short Story)
"The River" is a Southern gothic short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor that was first published in 1953 about a very young boy who is taken by his babysitter to a preacher at a Christian healing where he is baptized in a river, and, the next day, runs away from home to the site of his baptism and baptizes himself, and then is taken by the river to find the Kingdom of Christ, as told by the preacher, and drowns. Publication history "The River" first appeared in ''The Sewanee Review'' in the Summer 1953 issue, and republished in 1955 as the second story in the author's short story collection ''A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories''. The work later appeared in numerous other short story collections. Plot summary The story focuses on a boy named Harry Ashfield who is brought to a Christian revival meeting by his babysitter, Mrs. Connin, a revivalist Christian who believes in faith healing. Harry is about four or five years old and has a troubled home life. W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
"The Life You Save May Be Your Own" is a short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor. It is one of the 10 stories in her short story collection ''A Good Man Is Hard to Find'', published in 1955. Plot summary An elderly woman and her daughter sit quietly on their porch at sunset when Mr. Shiftlet comes walking up the road to their farm. Through carefully selected details, O'Connor reveals that the girl is deaf and mute, that the old woman views Shiftlet as 'a tramp,' and that Shiftlet himself wears a "left coat sleeve that was folded up to show there was only half an arm in it." The old woman's name is Lucynell Crater, and her daughter is also named Lucynell. The two adults exchange curt pleasantries, then Mrs. Crater offers him shelter in exchange for work but warns, "I can't pay." Shiftlet says he has no interest in money, adding that he believes that most people are too concerned with money. Sensing not only a handyman but a suitor for her daughter, Mrs. Crater asks i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Late Encounter With The Enemy
"A Late Encounter with the Enemy" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor. It was written in 1953 and published in the September 1953 issue of Harper’s Bazaar, appearing later in her short story collection ''A Good Man Is Hard to Find'' (1955). It is her only story dealing with the American Civil War. A devout Roman Catholic, O'Connor often used religious themes in her work. Plot summary General George Poker Sash is a 104-year-old veteran of the American Civil War who remembers very little about the War but is currently celebrated for his longevity. He has been invited to various public celebrations where he covets the attention, particularly, from beautiful women in the crowd, and he has an inflated image of himself despite his decrepit condition. The General's 62-year-old granddaughter, Sally Poker, prays every night that he lives long enough to sit on the stage during her college graduation so that everyone can see her strong heritage and superiority. The general is wheeled o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
