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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] |
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] |
A Good Man Is Hard To Find (short Story)
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is a Southern gothic short story first published in 1953 by author Flannery O'Connor who, in her own words, described it as "the story of a family of six which, on its way driving to Florida Georgia], is slaughtered by an escaped convict who calls himself the Misfit". The story remains the most anthologized and most well-known of all of O'Connor's works Publication history "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" was first published in 1953 in the multi-author short-story anthology ''Modern Writing I'' published by Avon. The story appears in her own collection of short stories ''A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories'' published in 1955 by Harcourt. In 1960, it was included in the anthology ''The House of Fiction'', published by Charles Scribner's Sons, and later included in numerous other short-story collections. Plot Bailey, the head of an Atlanta household, prepares to take his family on a vacation to Florida. Bailey's mother (known only as "th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Comforts Of Home
"The Comforts of Home" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor. It was written in 1960 and published in 1965 in her short story collection ''Everything That Rises Must Converge''. A devout Roman Catholic Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ..., O'Connor often used religious themes in her work. Plot summary The main character is Thomas, a history writer who lives with his mother. His mother takes pity on Sarah Ham (who calls herself Star Drake), an unstable young woman who has been arrested and jailed for passing bad checks. Thomas' mother hires an attorney to secure the girl's parole and finds a boarding house where Sarah can live. After Sarah gets kicked out of the boarding house for drunkenness, Thomas’ mother invites the girl to live with them despite her son's obje ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Enduring Chill
"The Enduring Chill" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor. It was written in 1958 and published in 1965 in her short story collection ''Everything That Rises Must Converge''. After suffering for many years, O'Connor died of lupus at the age of 39. A devout Roman Catholic, O'Connor often used religious themes in her work. Plot summary The story about Asbury, a writer from New York who returns home to his mother's farm in the Southern United States after coming down with a serious illness. He is out of money, unsuccessful, and believes he is dying. His mother finds a local doctor, Dr. Block, who draws some of Asbury's blood to examine. In bed Asbury thinks about various experiences, including one the prior year when he interacted with the African-American farm hands and, in a show of rebellion against his mother, smoked cigarettes with them in the dairy barn. He also drank raw milk, but the farm hands refuse to drink the milk, saying that's one thing Asbury's mother doesn't allow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A View Of The Woods
"A View of the Woods" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor. It was completed in the fall of 1956 and was first published in the Fall 1957 issue of ''Partisan Review''. It was later republished in ''The Best American Short Stories of 1958'', and again in 1965, in O'Connor's short story collection, ''Everything That Rises Must Converge''. O'Connor had first submitted it to ''Harper's Bazaar'', although she correctly expected that the story was "a little grim" for the Harper's readership and would be rejected. A devout Roman Catholic, O'Connor often used religious themes in her work; "A View of the Woods" contains numerous references to the Christian tradition. It explores the ideas of modernism and materialism pitted against salvation. Plot summary The main characters of the story are seventy-nine-year-old Grandfather Fortune, a successful landowner, and his favorite granddaughter, Mary Fortune Pitts, who is said to resemble him and he believes that she shares his business acume ... [...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] |
