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| Genre/Form: | American fiction Short stories, American |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965. Novels and stories. New York, N.Y. : Library of America : Distributed in the United States by Penguin Putnam, c2010 (OCoLC)778281672 |
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Shirley Jackson; Joyce Carol Oates |
| ISBN: | 9781598530728 1598530720 |
| OCLC Number: | 489014429 |
| Notes: | Contents selected by Joyce Carol Oates. |
| Description: | x, 827 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Contents: | The lottery; or, The adventures of James Harris -- The haunting of Hill House -- We have always lived in the castle -- Other stories and sketches: Uncollected: Janice -- A cauliflower in her hair -- Behold the child among his newborn blisses -- It isn't the money I mind -- The third baby's the easiest -- The summer people -- Island -- The night we all had grippe -- A visit; or, The lovely house -- This is the life; or, Journey with a lady -- One ordinary day, with peanuts -- Louisa, please come home -- The little house -- The bus -- The possibility of evil -- Unpublished: Portrait -- The mouse -- I know who I love -- The beautiful stranger -- The rock -- The honeymoon of Mrs. Smith -- Biography of a story. |
| Series Title: | Library of America, 204. |
| Other Titles: | Lottery: or, the adventures of James Harris. Haunting of Hill House. We have always lived in the castle. Janice. Cauliflower in her hair. Behold the child among his newborn blisses. It isn't the money I mind. Third baby's the easiest. Summer people. Island. Night we all had grippe. Visit, or, the lovely house. This is the life, or, Journey with a lady. One ordinary day, with peanuts. Louisa, please come home. Little house. Bus. Possibility of evil. Portrait. Mouse. I know who I love. Beautiful stranger. Rock. Honeymoon of Mrs. Smith. Selections. Novels & stories |
| Responsibility: | Shirley Jackson. |
Abstract:
"In just two decades--she died in 1965, at the age of 48--Shirley Jackson created a weird and distinctive world of fiction, one in which a grinning death's head lies just behind the smiling mask of so-called everyday life. She first displayed her genius for conjuring daylight demons in The Lottery, the classic collection whose world-famous title story is an allegory of bloodlust and blind obedience to tradition. She perfected it in two great Gothic novels: The Haunting of Hill House, the tale of an achingly empathetic young woman chosen by a haunted house to be its new tenant, and We Have Always Lived in the castle, the unrepentant confessions of Miss Merricat Blackwood, a cunning adolescent who has gone to quite unusual lengths to preserve her ideal of family happiness. All three books are here, together with 21 other stories and sketchest--two of them previously uncollected--that present the author in all her many modes: unrivalled mistress of the macabre, groundbreaking domestic humorist, and subtle social satirist."--Jacket.
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