Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works: Wise Blood, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, The Violent Bear It Away, Everything that Rises Must Converge, Essays & Letters

O'Connor, Flannery: Sally Fitzgerald wrote the notes & selected the texts for this volume.

ISBN 10: 0940450372 / ISBN 13: 9780940450370

Published by Library of America, New York, 1988

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SUPERB: COLLECTIBLE: NEW Library of America Stated First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1988) First printing, EXCELLENT NEW cream-white LOA slipcase w/ LOA logo gilt stamped at top center of double-gilt-bordered front panel w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW British-green Brillianta silk-finish linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles & LOA-colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE unblemished smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE white-on-green LOA-logo-patterned card-stock end-papers, NEW Smythe-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & green-white-checked cloth banding at spine-caps & w/ green silk marker-ribbon bound-in from top, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-free Ecusta Nyalite paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.64", 0.84 kg, 1281 pp. * CONTENTS: Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works: Wise Blood (1), A Good Man Is Hard to Find (133), The Violent Bear It Away (329), Everything that Rises Must Converge (481), Stories & Occasional Prose (697) Letters (865); Index of Stories & Occasional Prose (1235), Chronology (1237), Note on the Texts (1257), Notes (1265) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Flannery O'Connor, a unique and important figure in the Southern literary tradition, was one of the finest writers of the 20th century. This volume, containing her two novels, short stories, essays and letters, is the only complete collection of her works. * Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia, on March 25, 1925, & was raised as a devout Roman Catholic in Milledgeville, Georgia. Upon graduation from the Graduate Program of the Women's College of Georgia, O'Connor attended the writing program at the State University of Iowa, receiving her MFA in 1947. Among the strongest influences on O'Connor's work were the writings of William Faulkner & Nathanael West, from whom she derived her conception of the grotesque in literature. Following the publication of numerous short stories in literary journals, O'Connor's first novel, "Wise Blood", was published in 1952. Suffering from a hereditary rheumatic ailment, she spent the next twelve years writing at the family farm in Milledgeville under the care of her mother, Regina, & the strictest medical super vision. "A Good Man is Hard to Find", a collection of short stories, was published in 1955, & another novel, "The Violent Bear It Away", appeared in 1960. Though seriously ill, O'Connor made an extensive series of lecture tours, received an honorary degree from Smith College in 1963, & that same year, won first prize in the annual O'Henry short story awards (as she had previously done in 1956). After her death on August 3, 1964, another collection of short stories, "Everything That Rises Must Converge", was published (1965), as well as a volume of unpublished lectures & essays & various critical articles, "Mystery and Manners" (1969). * The LIBRARY of AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic). * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a nominal additional fee & via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL to all international shipments at our posted rates.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works: Wise Blood, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, The Violent Bear It Away, Everything that Rises Must Converge, Essays & Letters
• Publisher: Library of America, New York
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0940450372
• ISBN 13: 9780940450370
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Excellent New Slipcase

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Synopsis

This collection includes all the short stories, both novels, the essays, and sellected letters of one of the most unique and important writers in the southern tradition

About the Author

Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia, on March 25, 1925, and was raised as a devout Roman Catholic in Milledgeville, Georgia. Upon graduation from the Graduate Program of the Women's College of Georgia, O'Connor attended the writing program at the State University of Iowa, receiving her MFA in 1947. Among the strongest influences on O'Connor's work were the writings of William Faulkner and Nathanael West, from whom she derived her conception of the grotesque in literature. Following the publication of numerous short stories in literary journals, O'Connor's first novel, Wise Blood, was published in 1952. Suffering from a hereditary rheumatic ailment, she spent the next twelve years writing at the family farm in Milledgeville under the care of her mother, Regina, and the strictest medical super vision. A Good Man is Hard to Find, a collection of short stories, was published in 1955, and another novel, The Violent Bear It Away, appeared in 1960. Though seriously ill, O'Connor made an extensive series of lecture tours, received an honorary degree from Smith College in 1963, and that same year, won first prize in the annual O'Henry short story awards (as she had previously done in 1956). After her death on August 3, 1964, another collection of short stories, Everything That Rises Must Converge, was published (1965), as well as a volume of unpublished lectures and essays and various critical articles, Mystery and Manners (1969).