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Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, England / New York, New York, 1992
ISBN 10: 0195070658ISBN 13: 9780195070651
Seller: Andover Books and Antiquities, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. xiv, 768 pp. LCC: 921353.
Published by HMH Books 2015-10-06, Boston, 2015
ISBN 10: 0547485859ISBN 13: 9780547485850
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
Book
hardback. Condition: New. Language: ENG.
Published by Wesleyan College, Macon, GA, 1961
First Edition
Condition: Near fine. First edition. Scarce transcription of a panel discussion with Porter, O'Connor, Caroline Gordon, Madison Jones, and moderator Louis D. Rubin, the final event in a two-day symposium on Southern writing held at Wesleyan College in 1960. 9.75'' x 6.75''. Original saddle-stapled tan wrappers. Bulletin of Wesleyan College Volume 41, Number 1. Wrappers sunned along edges.
Wraps. Condition: Very good +. 6 x 9 3/4 inches ( 15 x 23.5 cm), tan wraps, with two red stains and darker stain above title, top 3/4 of spine is worn. On page 258, the second full paragraph there is an ink correction: "afflicted" is written in the margins and the word "affiliated" is crossed through. Flannery O'Connor's first publication, "The Geranium." Also contains a short shory by Katherine Anne Porter, three poems by Richard Wilbur, and others. Volume 6, no .4. 211-270 [pp.].
Published by Wesleyan College, Macon, 1961
First Edition
Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near Fine in wraps, some surface rubbing on the front wrap. Square and firmly bound with two staples, clean internally. A scarce issue of the quarterly Bulletin of Wesleyan College that features a transcript of a panel discussion featuring two of the most prominent Southern authors of the time: Flannery O'Connor and Katherine Anne Porter. In her first comment on the panel, O'Connor offers this response to the question of whether she "[does her] writing along with the dishwashing:" "Oh, no. I sit there before the typewriter for three hours every day and if anything comes I am there waiting to receive it. I think there should be a complete separation between literature and dishwashing.".
Published by Wesleyan College, Macon, Georgia, 1961
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Large octavo. 16pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Fine. Scarce.
Published by Accent: A Quarterly of New Literature, 1946
Seller: Respublica Books LLC, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A fine copy of this rare literary magazine containing Flannery O'Connor's (1925-1964) first published short story "The Geranium." O'Connor was a prolific American short story writer, novelist, and essayist, and is counted among the greatest American fiction writers of the twentieth century and a master of the Southern Gothic style. Much of O'Connor's writings are deeply imbued with her Roman Catholic faith-though her form stands in marked contrast to the moralistic and didactic methods that informed much of the religious writing of her time. Indeed, O'Connor's fiction is noteworthy for its unsentimental realism and emphasis on the grotesque and sinister aspects of life in the South, often emphasizing themes such as poverty, violence, race, and alienation. She would describe herself in a 1955 letter as a "hillbilly Thomist" in response to those who would see in the dark and violent themes of her first novel, Wise Blood (1952), a "hillbilly nihilism." As a devotee of Thomistic philosophy (she is purported to have read the works of St. Thomas Aquinas each evening) O'Connor adopted a philosophical realism that sought the true, the good, and the beautiful amidst an unvarnished world that is often wayward, unseemly, and vicious. For this reason, her fiction is markedly unafraid and gritty, and this fearlessness is evident in her first published short story, "The Geranium." In February 1946, the unknown writer of twenty-one mailed her short story to the editors of Accent, a literary quarterly founded in 1940 by Kerker Quinn, a graduate student at the University of Illinois. The story, which was promptly accepted and published in Accent's summer issue, centers upon an elderly man (referred to as "Old Dudley") who reminisces about his lifelong home in the South from the noisy confines of New York City, where he resides with his daughter and family, and explores themes of racism, mortality, and meaning. Although O'Connor would die young at age 39 from complications relating to her years-long struggle with lupus, "The Geranium" would live on with her many other stories in the posthumously published Complete Stories (1971), which would win the prestigious National Book Award for Fiction in 1972. In a 2009 poll conducted by the National Book Foundation, Complete Stories was declared the best book to have ever won the National Book Award for Fiction, beating out other giants such as William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, and Thomas Pynchon. This issue of Accent also includes contributions from Katherine Anne Porter, Mina Loy, and others. Printed wrappers, 6 x 9 inches, 64 pp. Light bump to corner, else fine.