The Lottery and Other Stories

by Shirley Jackson

• ISBN13: 9780374516819
• ISBN10: 0374516812
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781429957847
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-03-16
• Publisher: Macmillan Trade

Summary

The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New 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.

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

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	(14)
Epilogue	305