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Product Identifiers

PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux

ISBN-100374529531

ISBN-139780374529536

eBay Product ID (ePID)43400408

Product Key Features

Edition2

Book TitleLottery and Other Stories

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicHorror, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary

Publication Year2005

GenreFiction

AuthorShirley Jackson

Book SeriesFsg Classics Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight9.5 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2004-062825

Reviews"The stories remind one of the elemental terrors of childhood." -- James Hilton, Herald Tribune "In her art, as in her life, Shirley Jackson was an absolute original. She listened to her own voice, kept her own counsel, isolated herself from all intellectual and literary currents . . . . She was unique." -- Newsweek "Shirley Jackson is unparalleled as a leader in the field of beautifully written, quiet, cumulative shudders." --Dorothy Parker, Esquire "I implore you not to read this story unless you can take a day or a week afterward to think about it. A great story, like a great vintage, throws a crust of sediment which may destroy the bouquet and cause ulcers later. If you don't feel the tweak of the ulcers, you haven't really read this story. --Christopher Morley, author of The Haunted Bookshop "Perhaps more than anything else, the horror story or horror movie says it's okay to join the mob, to become the total tribal being, to destroy the outsider. It has never been done better or more literally than in Shirley Jackson's short story 'The Lottery.' " --Stephen King, Danse Macabre "One of [the twentieth] century's most luminous and strange American writers . . . Shirley Jackson wrote about the mundane evils hidden in everyday life and about the warring and subsuming of selves in a family, a community, and sometimes even in a single mind." --Jonathan Lethem, Salon "Everything this author wrote . . . had in it the dignity and plausibility of myth . . . Shirley Jackson knew better than any writer since Hawthorne the value of haunted things." --Guy Davenport, The New York Times Book Review, In her art, as in her life, Shirley Jackson was an absolute original. She listened to her own voice, kept her own counsel, isolated herself from all intellectual and literary currents . . . . She was unique., "The stories remind one of the elemental terrors of childhood."--James Hilton, Herald Tribune "In her art, as in her life, Shirley Jackson was an absolute original. She listened to her own voice, kept her own counsel, isolated herself from all intellectual and literary currents . . . . She was unique."-- Newsweek, "The stories remind one of the elemental terrors of childhood." -- James Hilton, Herald Tribune "In her art, as in her life, Shirley Jackson was an absolute original. She listened to her own voice, kept her own counsel, isolated herself from all intellectual and literary currents . . . . She was unique." -- Newsweek, "The stories remind one of the elemental terrors of childhood."--James Hilton,Herald Tribune "In her art, as in her life, Shirley Jackson was an absolute original. She listened to her own voice, kept her own counsel, isolated herself from all intellectual and literary currents . . . . She was unique."--Newsweek

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal813.5/4

Table Of ContentThe 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

SynopsisOne 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberPS3519.A392A6 2005