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thisglimpse's "Flannery O'Connor's reading list"

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These are books praised by Flannery O’Connor, as found in "The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor".

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    The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic)
    by Nathanael West

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    A sea change;
    by Nigel Forbes Dennis

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    The Pillar of Fire
    by Karl Stern

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    The Catcher in the Rye

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    Dead Souls
    by Nikolai Gogol

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    Disguises of Love (Signet Classical Books)
    by Robbie Macauley

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    Man Who Invented Sin And Other Stories
    by Sean O'faolain

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    Heart of Darkness (Green Integer)
    by Joseph Conrad

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    Tales of Henry James (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Henry James

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    The Widows of Thornton (Voices of the South)
    by Peter Hillsman Taylor

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    The Lord
    by Roman Guardini

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    Understanding Fiction
    by Cleanth Brooks

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    Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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    God and the Unconscious (Jungian Classics Series)
    by Victor White

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    Modern Man in Search of a Soul
    by C.G.Jung

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    Third Revolution: A Study of Psychiatry and Religion
    by Karl Stern

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    Waiting for God (Perennial Classics)
    by Simone Weil

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    History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages.
    by Etienne Henry, Gilson

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    The Unity of Philosophical Experience
    by Gilson, Etienne

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    The structure of poetry
    by Elizabeth Sewell

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  22. 24.
    The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
    by Russell Kirk

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    The treatise of S. Catherine of Genoa on Pugatory
    by Catherine

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  24. 26.
    Mysticism
    by Evelyn Underhill

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  25. 27.
    Kristin Lavransdatter
    by Sigrid Undset

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    A long Fourth,: And other stories
    by Peter Hillsman Taylor

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    Prince of Darkness, and other stories
    by J. F Powers

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    The Presence of Grace
    by J. F Powers

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  29. 31.
    The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
    by Eudora Welty

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  30. 32.
    Collected Stories
    by Frank O'Connor

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    The Malefactors
    by Caroline Gordon Tate

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    A Seed Upon the Wind
    by William Michelfelder

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    The Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena
    by St. Catherine of Siena

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    Proust: Swann's Way (Landmarks of World Literature)
    by Sheila Stern

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  35. 38.
    Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: Essays of a Social Critic
    by Russell Kirk

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    A Long Way Down
    by Elizabeth Fenwick

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    The Interior Castle
    by Teresa of Avila

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    How to Read a Novel
    by Caroline Gordon

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    The Virgin Mary
    by Jean Marie Pierre Guitton

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    Three Mystics: El Greco, St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila
    by O.D.C. Father Bruno de J.M.

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  41. 46.
    The Craft of Fiction
    by Percy Lubbock

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    The Simple Truth (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Elizabeth Hardwick

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  43. 48.
    A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World
    by Morris Dickstein

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  44. 49.
    The Innocent (Southern Classics)
    by Madison Jones

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    Painting and reality (Meridian books)
    by Etienne Gilson

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  46. 51.
    Pnin (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  47. 52.
    The Magic Barrel: Stories
    by Bernard Malamud

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  48. 53.
    The Victim (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  49. 54.
    The Assistant: A Novel
    by Bernard Malamud

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    Israel and Revelation Volume One Order and History
    by Eric Voegelin

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  51. 56.
    Lie Down in Darkness
    by William Styron

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Created by thisglimpse on Jan 04, 2007.