The Lottery and Other Stories

The Lottery and Other Stories

The Lottery and Other Stories

The Lottery and Other Stories

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Overview

One of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker in 1948.

"Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. Today it is considered a classic work of short fiction, a story remarkable for its combination of subtle suspense and pitch-perfect descriptions of both the chilling and the mundane.

The Lottery and Other Stories, the only collection of stories to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery" with twenty-four equally unusual short stories. Together they demonstrate Jackson's remarkable range—from the hilarious to the horrible, the unsettling to the ominous—and her power as a storyteller.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780374529536
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date: 03/16/2005
Series: FSG Classics Series
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 320
Sales rank: 426,896
Product dimensions: 8.32(w) x 5.52(h) x 0.85(d)
Age Range: 14 - 18 Years

About the Author

Shirley Jackson (1919–1965) wrote several books, including Hangsaman, Life Among the Savages, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

Table of Contents

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

What People are Saying About This

Elizabeth Janeway

Jackson's great gift is not to create a world of fantasy and terror, but rather to discover the existence of the grotesque in the ordinary world. The grotesque is so powerful here just because it takes off from everday life and constantly returns there until we do not know ourselves quite where we are.

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