The Lottery and Other Stories

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This anthology of short stories brings together some of author Shirley Jackson’s most celebrated pieces of short fiction. It includes her most famous story, “The Lottery,” about a small American town preparing for their strange annual tradition—a lottery in which every family must participate, and no one wants to win.
The Lottery and Other Stories was the only short story collection published during Shirley Jackson’s lifetime. Her story “The Lottery” stands out as one of the most famous short stories in American literary history.
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284 printed pages

Publication year: 2016

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Katarina Djokichas quoted8 months ago
SOMETIMES, she thought, stacking the dishes in the kitchen, sometimes I wonder if men are quite sane, any of them. Maybe they’re all just crazy and every other woman knows it but me, and my mother never told me and my roommate just didn’t mention it and all the other wives think I know….
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Katarina Djokichas quoted8 months ago
perhaps all human ailments were contained in the teeth, and he could fix them if people would only come to him in time.
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juanmanuelliehas quoted4 years ago
There is a nether land, a crevasse, to be crossed by women writers who are not writing books for “women” but books for readers.
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