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• "The Geranium
  The Geranium
  "The Geranium" is an early short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor. It was first published in Accent: A Quarterly of New Literature in 1946 and is one of the six stories included in O'Connor's 1947 master's thesis The Geranium: A Collection of Short Stories...
  
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• "The Barber
  The Barber (short story)
  "The Barber" is an early short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor. It is one of the six stories included in O'Connor's 1947 master's thesis The Geranium: A Collection of Short Stories and was first published in New Signatures I: A Selection of College Writing in 1948. It later appeared...
  
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• "Wildcat
  Wildcat (short story)
  "Wildcat" is an early short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor. It is one of the six stories included in O'Connor's 1947 master's thesis The Geranium: A Collection of Short Stories and was published posthumously in The North American Review in 1970...
  
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• "The Crop
  The Crop (short story)
  "The Crop" is an early short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor. It is one of the six stories included in O'Connor's 1947 master's thesis The Geranium: A Collection of Short Stories and was published posthumously in Mademoiselle in 1971...
  
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• "The Turkey
  The Turkey
  "The Turkey" is an early short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor. It is one of the six stories included in O'Connor's 1947 master's thesis The Geranium: A Collection of Short Stories and was published in Mademoiselle in 1948 as "The Capture." It later appeared in the 1971 collection...
  
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• "The Train
  The Train (short story)
  "The Train" is an early short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor. It is one of the six stories included in O'Connor's 1947 master's thesis The Geranium: A Collection of Short Stories and was published in The Sewanee Review in 1948. It later appeared in the 1971 collection The Complete...
  
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• "The Peeler
  The Peeler
  "The Peeler" is a short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor. It was first published in Partisan Review in 1949. It later appeared in the 1971 collection The Complete Stories...
  
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• "The Heart of the Park"
• "A Stroke of Good Fortune
  A Stroke of Good Fortune
  "A Stroke of Good Fortune" is a short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor. It is one of the ten stories included her short story collection A Good Man Is Hard to Find, published in 1955. The story involves a woman who discovers to her disappointment and disbelief that she is pregnant.....
  
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• "Enoch and the Gorilla"
• "A Good Man Is Hard to Find
  A Good Man is Hard to Find (short story)
  "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is a short story written by Flannery O'Connor in 1953. The story appears in the collection of short stories of the same name, A Good Man Is Hard to Find. The interpretive work of scholars often focuses on the controversial final scene.-Background:The short story was...
  
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• "A Late Encounter with the Enemy
  A Late Encounter with the Enemy
  "A Late Encounter with the Enemy" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor. It was written in 1953 and published in 1955 in her short story collection A Good Man Is Hard to Find and is her only story dealing with the American Civil War...
  
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• "The Life You Save May Be Your Own
  The Life You Save May Be Your Own
  "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" is a short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor. It is one of the ten stories in her short story collection A Good Man Is Hard to Find, published in 1955.- Plot summary :...
  
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• "The River
  The River (short story)
  "The River" is a short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor. It is one of the ten stories included her short story collection A Good Man Is Hard to Find, published in 1955. As a Roman Catholic novelist, most of Flannery's writing describe Christian redemption.-Plot summary:The story...
  
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• "A Circle in the Fire
  A Circle in the Fire
  "A Circle in the Fire" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor. It was written in 1954 and published in 1955 in her short story collection A Good Man is Hard to Find. A devout Roman Catholic, O'Connor often used religious themes in her work.- Plot summary :...
  
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• "The Displaced Person
  The Displaced Person
  "The Displaced Person" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor. It was published in 1955 in her short story collection A Good Man Is Hard to Find. A devout Roman Catholic, O'Connor often used religious themes in her work and her own family hired a displaced person after World War II.- Plot summary...
  
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• "A Temple of the Holy Ghost
  A Temple of the Holy Ghost
  "A Temple of the Holy Ghost" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor. It was written in 1954 and published in 1955 in her short story collection A Good Man Is Hard to Find and is one of O'Connor's only explicitly Catholic stories...
  
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• "The Artificial Nigger
  The Artificial Nigger
  "The Artificial Nigger" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor. It was published in 1955 in her short story collection A Good Man Is Hard to Find. The title refers to statues popular in the Jim Crow-era South, depicting grotesque minstrelcy characters. Like most of her other works, the story...
  
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• "Good Country People
  Good Country People
  "Good Country People" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor. It was published in 1955 in her short story collection A Good Man is Hard to Find. A devout Roman Catholic, O'Connor often used religious themes in her work.- Plot summary :...
  
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• "You Can't Be Any Poorer Than Dead"
• "Greenleaf
  Greenleaf (short story)
  "Greenleaf" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor. It was written in 1956 and published in 1965 in her short story collection Everything That Rises Must Converge. O'Connor finished the collection during her final battle with lupus. She died in 1964, just before her final book was published...
  
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• "A View of the Woods
  A View of the Woods
  "A View of the Woods" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor. It was completed in the fall of 1956 and was first published in the Fall 1957 issue of Partisan Review. It was later republished in The Best American Short Stories of 1958, and again in 1965, in O'Connor's short story collection,...
  
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• "The Enduring Chill
  The Enduring Chill
  "The Enduring Chill" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor. It was written in 1958 and published in 1965 in her short story collection Everything That Rises Must Converge. After suffering for many years, O'Connor died of lupus at the age of 39...
  
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• "The Comforts of Home
  The Comforts of Home
  "The Comforts of Home" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor. It was written in 1960 and published in 1965 in her short story collection Everything That Rises Must Converge. A devout Roman Catholic, O'Connor often used religious themes in her work....
  
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• "Everything That Rises Must Converge"
• "The Partridge Festival
  The Partridge Festival
  "The Partridge Festival" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor. It was published in 1961. A devout Roman Catholic, O'Connor often used religious themes in her work.- Plot summary :...
  
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• "The Lame Shall Enter First
  The Lame Shall Enter First
  "The Lame Shall Enter First" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor. It was published in 1965 in her short story collection Everything That Rises Must Converge. O'Connor finished the collection during her final battle with lupus. She died in 1964, just before her final book was published...
  
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• "Why Do the Heathen Rage?"
• "Revelation
  Revelation (short story)
  "Revelation" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor. It was published in 1965 in her short story collection Everything That Rises Must Converge. O'Connor finished the collection during her final battle with lupus. She died in 1964, just before her final book was published...
  
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• "Parker's Back
  Parker's Back
  "Parker's Back" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor. It was published in 1965 in her short story collection Everything That Rises Must Converge. O'Connor finished the collection during her final battle with lupus. She died in 1964, just before her final book was published...
  
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• "Judgment Day
  Judgement Day (short story)
  "Judgement Day" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor. It was published in 1965 in her short story collection Everything That Rises Must Converge. O'Connor finished the collection during her final battle with lupus. She died in 1964, just before her final book was published. A devout Roman...
  
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