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Abbreviations CW Flannery O’Connor: Collected Works. Ed. Sally Fitzgerald. New York: Library of America, 1988. HB The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor. Ed. Sally Fitzgerald . New York: Farrar, 1979. Lives The Lives of the Desert Fathers. Trans. Norman Russell. London : Mowbray, 1980. MM Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, by Flannery O’Connor . Ed. Sally and Robert Fitzgerald. New York: Farrar, 1969. Sayings The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection. Rev. ed. Trans. Benedicta Ward. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian, 1984. Note: Throughout the text, the first number in parenthetical citations to patristic works, including those listed above, indicates the section, paragraph , or saying; the second, bracketed number indicates the page. For some works, including the Lives and Sayings, the subject’s or speaker’s name is also given. In the case of Cassian’s Conferences, the conference number is indicated by a roman numeral. This page intentionally left blank Flannery O’Connor, Hermit Novelist This page intentionally left blank ...

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