The Lottery
and Other Stories
By Shirley Jackson
"The Lottery" was published by The Modern Library in 2000 - New York, USA and the language of the book is English.
“The Lottery” Metadata:
- Title: The Lottery
- Author: Shirley Jackson
- Language: English
- Publisher: The Modern Library
- Publish Date: 2000
- Publish Location: New York, USA
“The Lottery” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Horror stories - Rites and ceremonies - Fiction - Manners and customs - Villages - Stoning - Lotteries - short story - American literature - black spot - scapegoat - mob mentality - family - rules - American horror tales - American fiction (fictional works by one author) - Fiction, horror - Fiction, short stories (single author) - Short stories
- People: ➤ James Harris - R.H. Macy - Old Man Warner - Tessie Hutchinson - Mr. Summers - Bill Hutchinson - Harry Graves
- Places: New England
Edition Specifications:
- Format: Hardcover
- Pagination: xvi, 292p.
Edition Identifiers:
- Google Books ID: 4upaAAAAMAAJ
- The Open Library ID: OL26781386M - OL3171083W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 606293217
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 00036064
- ISBN-13: 9780679640394
- ISBN-10: 0679604398
- All ISBNs: 0679604398 - 9780679640394
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"The Lottery" Table Of Contents:
- 1- The intoxicated --
- 2- The daemon lover --
- 3- Like Mother used to make --
- 4- Trial by combat --
- 5- The villager --
- 6- My life with R.H. Macy --
- 7- The witch --
- 8- The renegade --
- 9- After you, my dear Alphonse --
- 10- Charles --
- 11- Afternoon in linen --
- 12- Flower garden --
- 13- Dorothy and my grandmother and the sailors --
- 14- Colloquy --
- 15- Elizabeth --
- 16- A fine old firm --
- 17- The dummy --
- 18- Seven types of ambiquity --
- 19- Come dance with me in Ireland --
- 20- Of course --
- 21- Pillar of salt --
- 22- Men with their big shoes --
- 23- The tooth --
- 24- Got a letter from Jimmy --
- 25- The lottery --
- 26- Epilogue.
"The Lottery" Description:
The Open Library:
A haunting and powerful collection of stories from one of America's finest writers, with a new Introduction by Patrick McGrath. Eerie, unforgettable, and by turns terrifying and hilarious, Shirley Jackson's collection of stories plunges us into a unique, brilliantly etched world where the uncanny lurks in the everyday and where nothing is quite what it seems. In "The Lottery," Jackson's most famous work and one of the greatest--and scariest--stories of the twentieth century, a small town gathers for an annual ritual that culminates in a terrible event. In "The Daemon Lover," a woman waits, then searches, for the man she is to marry that day, only to find that he has disappeared as completely as if he had never existed. In "Trial by Combat," a shy woman confronts her kleptomaniac neighbor, and in "Pillar of Salt," a tourist in New York is gradually paralyzed by a city grown nightmarish. Throughout these twenty-five tales, we move through a variety of emotional landscapes full of loneliness and humor, oddity and cruelty, banality and terror, and searing psychological insight. No reader will come away unaffected. The only collection to appear during Jackson's lifetime, The Lottery and Other Stories reveals the full breadth and power of this truly original writer. (jacket)
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