![]() ![]() The book also offers nine additional short stories, selected essays and 259 letters. Included are her two novels, Wise Blood and The Violent Bear it Away, and her better known short fiction collections including A Good Man is Hard to Find and Everything That Rises Must Converge. This book presents here for the first time O'Connor's complete works in a single volume. It requires patience and careful reading and re-reading to get to the heart of O'Connor's writing, but it's well worth the effort. Wise Blood, 1952 The Violent Bear It Away, 1960 Short story collections. ![]() ![]() But they are meant to startle us into our own revelation. Download a PDF teacher guide with tips for using the Flannery O’Connor Featured Historical Figure pages in the classroom. Frequently, the stories are violent, shockingly so and if not violent, then they still surprise or shock us in some way. The stories have characters who are often "freaks"-physically (legless, armless, fat, pock-marked) and psychologically. In them, she combines her Catholicism, her Southern-ness, and the grotesque in stories that explore the nature of revelation, grace (or the lack thereof), and redemption. Although her body of work is small, her stories are widely acclaimed. Flannery O'Connor was an American writer of the Southern Gothic tradition. ![]()
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