The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories collects all thirty-one short stories of the American writer Flannery O'Connor, including the contents of her collections A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Everything That Rises Must Converge. Published in 1971, after her early death in 1964, the volume won the National Book Award for Fiction. O'Connor wrote in the tradition of Southern Gothic, setting her stories among the small towns and farms of the rural South and populating them with proud, self-deceiving characters who are jolted, often violently, toward moments of grace. A devout Catholic, she infused her dark comedy and shocking endings with religious meaning, exploring sin, redemption, and the action of grace on flawed people. Title stories such as A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Good Country People are among the most studied works of American short fiction.
What you might want to know about The Complete Stories
The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
The complete short fiction of Flannery O'Connor, master of the dark, grace-haunted Southern Gothic story.
Yes. It won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1972, and was later named the best book ever to win that award in a special anniversary vote.
They include A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Good Country People, and Everything That Rises Must Converge.
The Complete Stories was written by Flannery O'Connor, published in 1971 by Picador.
The Complete Stories is 592 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Complete Stories takes most readers 9 to 13 hours to finish.
The Complete Stories is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
