After release from the army at twenty-two, Hazel Motes of Eastrod, Tennessee comes to a Southern city where he falls under the spell of Asa Hawks, a blind street preacher who is led around by his degenerate daughter, Sabbath Lily, age fifteen.

An essential collection of classic stories that established Flannery O'Connor's reputation as an American master of fiction-now with a new introduction by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Groff In 1955, with the title story and others in this critical edition, Flannery O'Connor firmly laid claim to her place as one of the most original and provocative writers of her generation. Steeped in a Southern Gothic tradition that would become synonymous...

Contents: Wise Blood - A Good Man is Hard to Find - The Violent Bear It Away - Everything That Rises Must Converge - Stories and Occasional Prose - Letters.