Cover art for The Lottery and Other Stories
Published
Penguin Classics, October 2009
ISBN
9780141191430
Format
Softcover, 320 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 13cm × 1.7cm

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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.

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