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Book · 1955 · Fiction

A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories

Flannery O'Connor
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich · 276 pages
★ 7.8 editorial score

On a Georgia back road a grandmother who talked her family into a detour meets an escaped killer. O'Connor's stories stay funny until the violence arrives, which is how grace arrives too.

Genre
Southern gothicSouthern literature
Medium
Short stories
Subject
CatholicismChristianitySpiritualityEvil
Setting
American South
Time
1955Depicts 1950s

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Quote · 1790

“No man chooses evil, because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”

Mary Wollstonecraft
Quote · 1662

“We never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.”

Blaise Pascal
Quote · 1963

“It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us—the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.”

Hannah Arendt
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