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A Good Man Is Hard To Find may refer to: * "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" (short story), a 1953 short story by Flannery O'Connor *''A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories'', a 1955 collection of short stories by Flannery O'Connor * "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" (song), a 1917 song by Eddie Green performed by Marion Harris *"A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Pittsburgh)", a 1982 song by Bruce Springsteen from the 1998 album '' Tracks'' *"A Good Man Is Hard to Find", a song by Sufjan Stevens from the 2004 album ''Seven Swans ''Seven Swans'' is the fourth studio album by Sufjan Stevens, released on March 16, 2004 on Sounds Familyre Records. It is Stevens' fourth studio album and features songs about Christian spiritual themes, figures such as Abraham, and Christ's Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Good Man Is Hard To Find (short Story)
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is a Southern gothic short story first published in 1953 by author Flannery O'Connor who, in her own words, described it as "the story of a family of six which, on its way driving to Florida Georgia], is slaughtered by an escaped convict who calls himself the Misfit". The story remains the most anthologized and most well-known of all of O'Connor's works. Publication history "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" was first published in 1953 in the multi-author short-story anthology ''Modern Writing I'' published by Avon. The story appears in her own collection of short stories '' A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories'' published in 1955 by Harcourt. In 1960, it was included in the anthology ''The House of Fiction'', published by Charles Scribner's Sons, and later included in numerous other short-story collections. Plot Bailey, the head of an Atlanta household, prepares to take his family on a vacation to Florida. Bailey's mother (known only as " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Good Man Is Hard To Find And Other Stories
''A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories'' (published in the United Kingdom as ''The Artificial Nigger and Other Tales'') is a collection of short story, short stories by American author Flannery O'Connor. The collection was first published in 1955. The subjects of the stories range from baptism ("The River (short story), The River") to serial killers ("A Good Man Is Hard to Find (short story), A Good Man Is Hard to Find") to human greed and exploitation ("The Life You Save May Be Your Own"), although O'Connor described the ten-story collection as "nine stories about original sin, with my compliments". The majority of the stories include jarring violent scenes that make the characters undergo a spiritual change. Influenced by O'Connor's Catholicism, the stories frequently apply Catholic morals to life-or-death scenarios. For instance, in the story "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" the villain states, "She would have been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Good Man Is Hard To Find (song)
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is a song written by African-American songwriter and later actor Eddie Green, and first published in 1917. It was first recorded by Marion Harris in 1919. It is regarded as "one of the classic blues standards from the Roaring Twenties". Eugene Chadbourne, "Eddie Green", ''Allmusic.com'' Retrieved 5 April 2019 History The song was written by Green "in a bluesy style", and was first copyrighted in December 1917.Elva Diane Green, "A Good Man is Hard to Find", ''Unlikely Stories Mark V''Retrieved 5 April 2019 It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracks (Bruce Springsteen Album)
''Tracks'' is a four-disc box set by the American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, released in 1998 containing 66 songs. This box set mostly consists of never-before-released songs recorded during the sessions for his many albums, but also includes a number of single B-sides, as well as demos and alternate versions of already-released material. History The project began in February 1998, when Springsteen and his chief recording engineer, Toby Scott, began going through his massive collection of unreleased songs. Springsteen had been known as a very prolific songwriter (''Darkness on the Edge of Town'', '' The River'', and '' Born in the U.S.A.'' each had more than 50 songs written for them), and by 1998 the number of unreleased songs was up to more than 350— 3/4 of all his recorded material. Scott had begun on a computerized database of Springsteen's archives in 1985 in order to allow Springsteen to find specific songs that hadn't been released yet, and it was understood by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |