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The Violent Bear It Away is a 1960 novel by American author Flannery O'Connor. It is the second and final novel that she published. The first chapter was originally published as the story " You Can't Be Any Poorer Than Dead " in the journal New World Writing. [1] The novel tells the story of Francis Marion Tarwater, a fourteen-year-old boy who ...
Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 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 she relied, heavily, on regional settings and ...
Publication date. 1965. " Parker's Back " is a Southern gothic short story by American author Flannery O'Connor about the efforts of a worldly tattooed Southern man to demonstrate his love for a fundamentalist Christian woman whom he courts and marries but never understands why he stays with her. After a self-indulgent, disordered, and carefree ...
0-374-15012-5. Everything That Rises Must Converge is a collection of short stories written by Flannery O'Connor during the final decade of her life. The collection's eponymous story derives its name from the work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. [1][2] The collection was published posthumously in 1965 and contains an introduction by Robert ...
Publication date. 1953. " 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".
Publication date. May 12, 1955. " 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.
Flannery O'Connor's moral theme of "Revelation" about sin, particularly the sin of pride, committed after baptism uses the image of a serpent mentioned in a Catechetical lecture that appears in an epigraph for her short story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" that was published the month following her death in the 1964 collection Three by Flannery O ...
978-0156364652. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (published in the United Kingdom as The Artificial Nigger and Other Tales) is a collection of short stories by American author Flannery O'Connor. The collection was first published in 1955. The subjects of the short stories range from baptism ("The River") to serial killers ("A Good ...