The Complete Stories

The Violent Bear It Away: A Novel (FSG Classics)

Author: Flannery O’Connor

Winner of the National Book AwardThe publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O’Connor’s monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O’Connor put together in her short lifetime – Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is H….Read More

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Wise Blood

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor’s astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is a story of… Continue Reading Posted in: Dialect Literature, Fiction In English 1945, Humorous Stories, Religious Literature & Fiction, Two-Hour Literature & Fiction Short Reads

The Violent Bear It Away

First published in 1960, The Violent Bear It Away is now a landmark in American literature. It is a dark and absorbing example of the Gothic sensibility and bracing satirical… Continue Reading Posted in: American, English Fiction, Families, Gothic Fiction, Religious Literature & Fiction, Satire

The Easter Parade

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The Street of Crocodiles

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