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Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
The book opens with “The King of the Birds,” her famous account of raising peacocks at her home in Milledgeville, Georgia. There are three essays on regional writing, including “The Fiction Writer and His Country” and “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction”; two on teaching literature, including “Total Effect and the Eighth Grade”; and four on 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 gems. Their value to the contemporary reader―and writer―is inestimable.
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