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A Good Man Is Hard To Find

The short story “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” by Flannery O’ Connor was first published in a collection bearing that same name in 1955. This horror story involves the murder of a family on vacation by a psychopathic serial killer.

Call Numbers for Browsing the Shelves

• PS3565 .C57
• PZ4 .O183

Circulating Books – A Selected List

• Bloom, Harold (Ed.). Flannery O’Connor. 1986.

                     Call Number: PS3565 .C57 Z6678 1986

• Brinkmeyer, Robert H. Jr. The Art and Vision of Flannery O’Connor. 1989.

                    Call Number: PS3565 .C57 Z587 1989

• Giannone, Richard. Flannery O’Connor: Hermit Novelist. 2000.

                    Call Number: PS3565 .C57 Z6794 2000

•  Hurley, Jennifer A. (Ed.). Readings on Flannery O’Connor. 2001.

                   Call Number: PS3565 .C57 Z847 2001

• O’Connor, Flannery. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories.

                    Call Number: PZ4 .O183 Go9

• Whitt, Margaret Earley. Understanding Flannery O’Connor. 1995.

                    Call Number: PS3565 .C57 Z94 1995

•  Wood, Ralph. Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South. 2004.

                    Call Number: PS3565 .C57 Z97 2004

LINCCWeb online catalog – Search Terms

• A Good Man is Hard to Find (Keywords)
• O’Connor, Flannery (Subject)
• O’Connor, Flannery – Criticism and Interpretation (Subject)

Reference Materials

• Contemporary Literary Criticism – Call Number: REF PN771 .C59

o   Vol. 1, pgs. 255, 257

o   Vol. 2, pg. 317

o   Vol. 3, pgs. 366, 368

o   Vol. 6, pg. 381

o   Vol. 10, pg. 368

o   Vol. 15, pgs. 408, 412

o   Vol. 21, pgs. 256, 263, 270, 272

o   Vol. 66, pgs. 313, 330

o   Vol. 104, pgs. 105, 117, 128, 138, 173, 175

• Critical Survey of Short Fiction – Call Number: REF PN3321 .C7 2001

o   Vol. 5, pg. 1797

o   Vol. 7, pg. 2809

• Masterplots II: Short Story Series (Revised Edition) – Call Number: REF PN3326 .M27 1986

o   Vol. 3, pgs. 1589-91

• Short Story Criticism –  Call Number: REF PN3321 .S5

o   Vol. 1, pgs. 339-371

o   Vol. 23, pgs. 178-241

o   Vol. 61, pgs. 143, 146-47, 151-56, 169, 172, 186, 188-89, 197, 200, 214-16, 218, 227-30, 232, 234, 240-41

o   Vol. 82, pgs. 43-50, 110, 124, 167

•  Short Stories for Students – Call Number: REF PN3330 .S386

o   Vol. 2, pgs. 97-114       

Research Databases

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• Academic Search Complete
• Literature Resources from Gale

This Research Guide is designed to help users find information on a particular topic within the Valencia College East Campus Library.  This is by no means a comprehensive list of resources and other resources may be available on this topic.  Please check LINCCWeb, Valencia East’s online catalog, to verify the availability of circulating books within the library.  Feel free to ask a librarian for help if you need further assistance.

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Last Revised on November 21, 2021