The complete stories / [print]
Flannery O'Connor.
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (c)1971.
- xvii, 555 pages ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
The geranium -- The barber -- Wildcat -- The crop -- The turkey -- The train -- The peeler -- The heart of the park -- A stoke of good fortune -- Enoch and the gorilla -- A good man is hard to find -- A late encounter with the enemy -- The life you save may be your own -- The river -- A circle in the fire -- The displaced person -- A temple of the Holy Ghost -- The artificial nigger -- Good country people -- You can't be any poorer than dead -- Greenleaf -- A view of the woods -- The enduring chill -- The comforts of home -- Everything that rises must converge -- The partridge festival -- The lame shall enter first -- Why do the heathen rage? -- Revelation -- Parker's back -- Judgement Day.
This work brings together, for the first time, the complete stories, thirty-one in all, of the great American short fiction writer, Flannery O'Connor. This book opens with her first story, The Geranium, written in 1945 while she was working on her masters degree at the University of Iowa. It ends with Judgment Day, which she sent to her publisher shortly before her death. Front cover flap.