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product_id: 175844311
title: "The Lottery (Penguin Modern Classics)"
brand: "shirley jackson"
price: "FREE"
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reviews_count: 23
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# The Lottery (Penguin Modern Classics)

**Brand:** shirley jackson
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- **What is this?** The Lottery (Penguin Modern Classics) by shirley jackson
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## Description

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        			Shirley Jackson&apos;s stories are among the most terrifying ever written (Donna Tartt)An amazing writer ... If you haven&apos;t read We Have Always Lived in the Castle or The Haunting of Hill House or any of her short stories you have missed out on something marvellous (Neil Gaiman)Her stories are stunning, timeless - as relevant and terrifying now as when they were first published ... &apos;The Lottery&apos; 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)
				    	
					
        		
        		
        	
        
        	
        		About the Author
        	
        	
        		
        			Shirley Jackson was born in California in 1916. When her short story The Lottery was first published in the New Yorker in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time. Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by Hangsaman, The Bird&apos;s Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, widely seen as her masterpiece. In addition to her dark, brilliant novels, she wrote lightly fictionalized magazine pieces about family life with her four children and her husband, the critic Stanley Edgar Hyman. Shirley Jackson died in 1965.

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## Customer Reviews

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    A lacklustre read
  

*by K***E on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 August 2018*









  
  
    I wanted to enjoy this book so much after reading good reviews and watching something on tv where both author and book were mentioned. To be honest I was irritated by it. It all refers back to when this "tradition" started, and how the items used had changed/ aged over time and circumstance. I found no tension, no drama, no meat on the bones! It's a droll little book that promises nothing and delivers less! The notes and help/question section is almost as long as the story. I wanted to feel tension and latent fear, but to me, it all fell a bit flat. I realise my opinion is almost the antithesis of every other review and I feel a bit like the child in The Emperors New Clothes" in that everyone else has persuaded themselves to it's magnificence but to me it's very sadly lacking!
  


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    so thought the price was fine. I could have actually bought this book for ...
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 January 2018*









  
  
    I didn't realise that this 'book' is only 6 pages long, so thought the price was fine. I could have actually bought this book for 99p, so guess it serves me right for being lazy and ordering online ;-) Beware the short story!
  


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    Five Stars
  

*by M***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 August 2015*









  
  
    As described
  


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