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The Lottery and Other Stories
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  • Published: 9 November 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141191430
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $28.00

The Lottery and Other Stories

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Paperback
9 Nov 2009
EBook
1 Oct 2009
Audiobook
8 Oct 2020
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The definitive collection of Shirley Jackson's short stories, including 'The Lottery' - one of the most terrifying and iconic stories of the twentieth century

An excellent host finds himself turned out of home by his own guests; a woman spends her wedding day frantically searching for her husband-to-be; and in Shirley Jackson's best-known story, a small farming village comes together for a terrible lottery.

The creeping unease of lives squandered and the bloody glee of lives lost is chillingly captured in these tales of wasted potential and casual cruelty by a master of the short story.
  • Published: 9 November 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141191430
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $28.00
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Praise for The Lottery and Other Stories

Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written

Donna Tartt

Her stories are stunning, timeless - as relevant and terrifying now as when they were first published ... 'The Lottery' is so much an icon in the history of the American short story that one could argue it has moved from the canon of American twentieth-century fiction directly into the American psyche, our collective unconscious

A. M. Homes

One of the twentieth century's most luminous and strange American writers

Jonathan Lethem