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description: Originally published in Harper's Bazaar June 1955. This story is now available in the anthologies A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories The Dark Descent and The Dark Descent: The Medusa in the Shield v. 2Mrs. Hopewell is a country farmer and her estranged daughter Hulga has a degree in philosophy. A stranger arrives and convinces them both that he's a naive Bible salesman. They're wrong and the consequences are particularly humiliating for Hulga after he makes sexual advances steals her prosthetic leg and reveals that that was his aim.
language: English
title: Good Country People
publisher: None