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The Lottery and Other Stories. Illustrated
About this book
Shirley Jackson's The Lottery and Other Stories is a landmark collection that showcases the author's uncanny ability to uncover the unsettling beneath the everyday. First published in 1949, the volume features 25 stories that range from the quietly eerie to the psychologically disturbing — all written in Jackson's precise, elegant, and often deceptively calm prose.
At the center of the collection is the iconic title story, The Lottery — a chilling tale of small-town tradition taken to horrifying extremes, which remains one of the most controversial and widely studied short stories in American literature. Surrounding it are tales of domestic unease, subtle cruelty, social alienation, and hidden madness, often featuring seemingly ordinary characters in quietly surreal or threatening situations.
Jackson's themes — the fragility of civility, the dangers of conformity, and the darkness lurking within human nature — are as relevant today as ever. With razor-sharp psychological insight and a gift for building dread in the most mundane settings, The Lottery and Other Stories confirms her status as a master of short fiction and a pioneer of modern American gothic.
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American LiteratureTable of contents
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- V Epilogue