false <![CDATA[Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170872996m/75087.jpg 75087 3 <div>At her death in 1964, O'Connor left behind a body of unpublished essays and lectures as well as a number of critical articles that had appeared in scattered publications during her too-short lifetime. The keen writings comprising <i>Mystery and Manners</i>, selected and edited by O'Connor's lifelong friends Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, are characterized by the directness and simplicity of the author's style, a fine-tuned wit, understated perspicacity, and profound faith.<br><br>The book opens with "The King of the Birds," her famous account of raising peacocks at her home in Milledgeville, Georgia. Also included are: three essays on regional writing, including "The Fiction Writer and His Country" and "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction"; two pieces on teaching literature, including "Total Effect and the 8th Grade"; and four articles concerning the writer and religion, including "The Catholic Novel in the Protestant South." Essays such as "The Nature and Aim of Fiction" and "Writing Short Stories" are widely seen as gems.<br><br>This bold and brilliant essay-collection is a must for all readers, writers, and students of contemporary American literature.<br></div> 3267475 1 1 1969 Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose total:547|5:243|4:221|3:72|2:11|1:0| 547 2337 818 68 4 1 false false Wed May 09 19:12:16 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 02 08:00:17 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Tue Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Sep 18 06:44:33 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 03 12:41:40 -0800 2009
I. A Short Story – very entertaining. I am glad the editors included this story among all the essays. I had never read any of he...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 29 16:33:29 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 16:46:21 -0700 2008
Seriously, a victory.

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Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept the fact that its face too is grotesque, tha...
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“It is the business of fiction to embody mystery through manners, and mystery is a great embarrassment to the modern mind. About the tu...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Sep 17 07:31:54 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 07:45:05 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Nov 13 10:13:41 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 10:16:26 -0800 2009 0 0 true false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Sun Oct 25 17:16:17 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 17:18:23 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Feb 23 09:48:45 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 09:50:24 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 11:21:04 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 11:21:04 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 02 15:03:17 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 07:09:07 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 18:09:29 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 07:51:48 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon May 04 11:14:40 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 11:15:39 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 15:07:12 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 03 11:42:44 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=75087