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The lottery and other stories
(2023, original release: 1948)
By: Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
FICTION/JACKSON,S

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Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Picador / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023
©1948
EDITION
75th anniversary paperback edition
DESCRIPTION

xii, 302 pages ; 21 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781250910158, 1250910153, 9781250910158, 1250910153
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"Originally published in 1949 by Farrar, Straus and Company as The Lottery or, The Adventures of James Harris"--Title page verso

"One of the darkest, most nightmarish stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" created a sensation when it was first published in 1948. Now celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary, this lucid tale of a sleepy town's annual lottery--and the monstrous desires it awakens--endures as an essential classic of American fiction. The Lottery and Other Stories unites "The Lottery" with twenty-four wonderfully strange and equally terrifying short stories from the legendary Shirley Jackson. Together they demonstrate Jackson's remarkable range--from the hilarious to the horrible, the unsettling to the ominous--and showcase a true master at the height of her haunting powers"--Back cover

CONTENTS

Introduction by A.M. Homes --

The intoxicated -- The daemon lover -- Like mother used to make -- Trial by combat -- The villager -- My life with R.H. Macy -- The witch -- The renegade -- After you, my dear Alphonse -- Charles -- Afternoon in linen -- Flower garden -- Dorothy and my grandmother and the sailors -- Colloquy -- Elizabeth -- A fine old firm -- The dummy -- Seven types of ambiguity -- Come dance with me in Ireland -- Of course -- Pillar of salt -- Men with their big shoes -- The tooth -- Got a letter from Jimmy -- The lottery --

Epilogue

Additional Credits

CREDITS

Homes, A. M., writer of introduction

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Manners and customs -- Fiction

Horror tales, American

Horror tales

Horror fiction.

Short stories.

Fiction.

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