The Best English-Language Fiction of the Twentieth Century
A Composite List and Ranking
by Brian Kunde
 
INTRODUCTION
SOURCE LISTS
COMPOSITE LIST
RANKING SYSTEM
COLUMN KEY
REVIEWS
LINKS

Reviews.

<- O'Connor, Flannery, 1925-1964.
         Full name: Mary Flannery O'Connor. American author born in Savannah, Georgia, famed for regional stories of the "Southern Gothic" type.
  • <- A Good Man is Hard to Find. 1955.
             A collection of eleven short stories, one of which, concerning serial killers, has the same title as the collection. The title story was adapted to film as "Black Hearts Bleed Red" in 1992.
  • <- Wise Blood. 1952.
             Flannery's first novel, featuring the blackly comedic misadventures of veteran and disbeliever Hazel Motes as he stumbles through a number of increasingly grotesque and perverse evangelical cults. Adapted to film in 1979.

Posted Mar. 30, 2007, and last updated May 14, 2013.
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