Reviewed by Martin LairdFOLIO SOCIETY, 331pp, £34.95 In a brief career the intriguing, bedazzling Flannery O’Connor produced two acclaimed novels, Wise Blood and The Violent Bear it Away, and a slew of short stories, 17 of which have been included in this handsomely bound, boxed and illustrated edition, only available direct from the Folio Society. O’Connor had a keen social conscience, a telescopic bearing on the human talent for self-deception, and a piercing insight into the human condition – which she fixed unflinchingly on relieving her protagonists of their moral blindness. But the most distinctive mark of O’Connor’s stories is the idiosyncratic and often shocking (to both protagonist and reader alike) way she brings her main characters to what