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9780374529536

The Lottery and Other Stories

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  • ISBN13:

    9780374529536

  • ISBN10:

    0374529531

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-03-16
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Summary

The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published inTheNew Yorker. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery:" with twenty-four equally unusual stories. Together they demonstrate Jack son's remarkable range--from the hilarious to the truly horrible--and power as a storyteller. Shirley Jackson(1919-65) wrote several books, includingHangsaman,Life Among the Savages, andWe Have Always Lived in the Castle. For the last twenty years of her life, she lived in North Bennington, Vermont. One of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, "The Lottery" created a sensation when it was first published inTheNew Yorker. "Powerful and haunting" and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. Widely anthologized, "The Lottery" is today considered a classic work of short fiction. This collection, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, combines "The Lottery" with twenty-four equally unusual or unsettling tales. Taken together, these writings demonstrate Jackson's remarkable and commanding rangefrom the commonplace to the chilling, from the hilarious to the truly horribleas a modern storyteller. This FSG Classics edition also features a new introduction to Jackson's work by A. M. Homes. "Jackson is unparalleled as a leader in the field of beautifully written, quiet, cumulative shudders."Dorothy Parker,Esquire "[These] stories remind one of the elemental terrors of childhood."James Hilton, New York 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

Author Biography

Shirley Jackson, born in 1919, was the author of numerous books, including Hangsman, Life Among the Savages, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle. For the last twenty years of her life, until her death in 1965, she lived in North Bennington, Vermont.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION BY A.M. HOMES, ix
I
THE INTOXICATED,
3(6)
THE DAEMON LOVER,
9(20)
LIKE MOTHER USED TO MAKE,
29(12)
TRIAL BY COMBAT,
41(8)
THE VILLAGER,
49(8)
MY LIFE WITH R.H. MACY,
57(6)
II
THE WITCH,
63(6)
THE RENEGADE,
69(16)
AFTER YOU, MY DEAR ALPHONSE,
85(6)
CHARLES,
91(6)
AFTERNOON IN LINEN,
97(6)
FLOWER GARDEN,
103(32)
DOROTHY AND MY GRANDMOTHER AND THE SAILORS,
135(10)
III
COLLOQUY,
145(4)
ELIZABETH,
149(44)
A FINE OLD FIRM,
193(6)
THE DUMMY,
199(10)
SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY,
209(10)
COME DANCE WITH ME IN IRELAND,
219(10)
IV
OF COURSE,
229(6)
PILLAR OF SALT,
235(20)
MEN WITH THEIR BIG SHOES,
255(10)
THE TOOTH,
265(22)
GOT A LETTER FROM JIMMY,
287(4)
THE LOTTERY,
291(12)
V
EPILOGUE,
303

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