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Pages in category "Short stories by Shirley Jackson" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery.Her writing career spanned over two decades, during which she composed six novels, two memoirs, and more than 200 short stories.
The Lottery and Other Stories is a 1949 short story collection by American author Shirley Jackson. Published by Farrar, Straus , it includes " The Lottery " and 24 other stories. This was the only collection of her stories to appear during her lifetime.
Pages in category "Short story collections by Shirley Jackson" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. J.
Like Mother Used to Make" is a short story by Shirley Jackson. It was originally published in the 1949 short story collection The Lottery and Other Stories by publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It contains the second appearance of James Harris, a recurring character in the collection. [1]
This discovery led Hyman and Dewitt to produce a new collection of their mother's work titled Just An Ordinary Day, which contains thirty-two new stories—some of which came from Jackson's unsorted papers that had been sent by her husband to the Library of Congress as well as from the San Francisco Public Library—and twenty-one which had ...
Come Along with Me is a posthumous collection of works by American writer Shirley Jackson.It contains the incomplete titular novel, on which Jackson was working at the time of her death, three lectures delivered by Jackson, and sixteen short stories, mostly in the gothic genre, including Jackson's best known work, "The Lottery".
The Lottery is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. [a] The story describes a fictional small American community that observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery", which is intended to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens.