The Lottery and Other Stories
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ISBN10: 0374529531
ISBN13: 9780374529536
Trade Paperback
320 Pages
$17.00
CA$23.00
One of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, "The Lottery" created a sensation when it was first published in The New 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 range—from the commonplace to the chilling, from the hilarious to the truly horrible—as a modern storyteller.
This FSG Classics edition also features a new introduction to Jackson's work by A. M. Homes.
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Praise for The Lottery and Other Stories
"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
