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"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.
The title story of the volume exemplifies the thematic scope of the entire collection; and its importance is already indicated by its length. While the whole volume consists of only 227 pages, the story "All the Good People I've Left Behind" is 82 pages long and consists of five parts. It deals with the development of two couples, the Enrights ...
"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 [from Georgia], is slaughtered by an escaped convict who calls himself the Misfit".
A short story is a piece of prose fiction.It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood.
"It's a Good Life" is a short story by American writer Jerome Bixby, written in 1953. In 1970, the Science Fiction Writers of America selected it for The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, as one of the 20 best short stories in science fiction published prior to the Nebula Award. The story was first published in Star Science Fiction ...
"Young Goodman Brown" is a short story published in 1835 by American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. The story takes place in 17th-century Puritan New England, a common setting for Hawthorne's works, and addresses the Calvinist/Puritan belief that all of humanity exists in a state of depravity, but that God has destined some to unconditional election through unmerited grace.
Most people tend to overestimate the risks various daily activities bring, but that doesn’t mean anyone expects to be in mortal danger on an average day. We are pretty blessed to live in a day ...
The Good People is a 2016 historical novel by Australian author Hannah Kent. [1] The novel takes inspiration from the case of the 1826 death of Michael Leahy in Kerry , Ireland. [ 2 ]