The Complete Stories

Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American novelist, short-story writer and essayist. O'Connor's writing often reflected her own Roman Catholic faith, and frequently examined questions of morality and ethics.


Her The Complete Stories received the 1972 National Book Award for Fiction. In a 2009 online poll conducted by the National Book Foundation, the collection was named the best work to have won the National Book Award for fiction in the contest’s 60-year history.


The collection includes:

* The Geranium

* The Barber

* Wildcat

* The Crop

* The Turkey

* The Train

* The Peeler

* The Heart of the Park

* A Stroke 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 N****r

* 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