''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"]
National Book Foundation. 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]
"1972"
''60 Years of Honoring Great American Books'' (book-a-day blog) July 28, 2009 . National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-01-25.
as part of the Fiction Award's 60th anniversary celebration in 2009, voting on a ballot of the best six award winners selected by writers associated with the Foundation.
(2009 online poll). National Book Foundation: Awards: Best of the NBAs Fiction. Retrieved before 2012-01-25.
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The Geranium
"The Geranium" is an early short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor. It was first published in ''Accent: A Quarterly of New Literature'' in 1946 and is one of the six stories included in O'Connor's 1947 master's thesis ''The Geranium ...
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The Barber"
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Wildcat"
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The Crop
''The Crop'' is a 2004 Australian comedy film set during the 1980s.
Plot
''The Crop'', is set in the early 1980s in Australia, and is about larrikin nightclub owner, Ronnie 'Blade' Gillette (George Elliot), and his barmaid girlfriend Geraldine ...
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The Turkey
"The Turkey" is an early short story by the American author 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 we ...
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The Train"
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The Peeler"
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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 ...
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A Stroke of Good Fortune"
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Enoch and the Gorilla"
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
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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). I ...
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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 d ...
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The River"
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A Circle in the Fire"
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 grotes ...
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Good Country People"
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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'' plu ...
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Greenleaf"
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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 ...
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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 3 ...
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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:
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Everything That Rises Must Converge"
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The Partridge Festival
"The Partridge Festival" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor. It was published in 1961. A devout Roman Catholic, O'Connor often used religious themes in her work.
Plot summary
Calhoun, a twenty-three-year-old writer, visits his two doting g ...
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The Lame Shall Enter First"
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Why Do the Heathen Rage?"
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Revelation"
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Parker's Back
"Parker's Back" is a Southern gothic short story by American author Flannery O'Connor about the efforts of a worldly tattooed Southern United States, Southern man to demonstrate his love for a Christian fundamentalism, fundamentalist Christian wo ...
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Judgment Day
The Last Judgment, Final Judgment, Day of Reckoning, Day of Judgment, Judgment Day, Doomsday, Day of Resurrection or The Day of the Lord (; ar, یوم القيامة, translit=Yawm al-Qiyāmah or ar, یوم الدین, translit=Yawm ad-Dīn, ...
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References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Complete Stories, The
1971 short story collections
Short story collections by Flannery O'Connor
National Book Award for Fiction winning works
Farrar, Straus and Giroux books