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At her death in 1964, O'Connor left behind a body of unpublished essays and lectures as well as a number of critical articles that had appeared in scattered publications during her too-short lifetime. The keen writings comprising Mystery and Manners, selected and edited by O'Connor's lifelong friends Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, are characterized by the directness and simplicity of the author's style, a fine-tuned wit, understated perspicacity, and profound faith.

The book opens with "The King of the Birds," her famous account of raising peacocks at her home in Milledgeville, Georgia. Also included are: three essays on regional writing, including "The ...

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At her death in 1964, O'Connor left behind a body of unpublished essays and lectures as well as a number of critical articles that had appeared in scattered publications during her too-short lifetime. The keen writings comprising Mystery and Manners, selected and edited by O'Connor's lifelong friends Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, are characterized by the directness and simplicity of the author's style, a fine-tuned wit, understated perspicacity, and profound faith.

The book opens with "The King of the Birds," her famous account of raising peacocks at her home in Milledgeville, Georgia. Also included are: three essays on regional writing, including "The Fiction Writer and His Country" and "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction"; two pieces on teaching literature, including "Total Effect and the 8th Grade"; and four articles concerning the writer and religion, including "The Catholic Novel in the Protestant South." Essays such as "The Nature and Aim of Fiction" and "Writing Short Stories" are widely seen as gems.

This bold and brilliant essay-collection is a must for all readers, writers, and students of contemporary American literature.

A collection of unpublished essays and lectures, as well as a number of critical articles that appeared in various publications during the author's lifetime.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780374508043
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Publication date: 1/28/1969
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 150,149
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.27 (h) x 0.71 (d)

Meet the Author

Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1925. When she died at the age of thirty-nine, America lost one of its most gifted writers at the height of her powers.

Table of Contents

Foreword

I The King of the Birds

II The Fiction Writer and His Country Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction The Regional Writer

III The Nature and Aim of Fiction Writing Short Stories On Her Own Work

IV The Teaching of Literature Total Effect and the Eighth Grade

V The Church and the Fiction Writer Novelist and Believer Catholic Novelists and Their Readers The Catholic Novelist in the Protestant South

VI Introduction to A Memoir of Mary Ann

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