{"product_id":"9780141191430-lottery-and-other-stories-the","title":"The Lottery and Other Stories","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOffers a collection of short stories, in which 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 a small farming village comes together for a terrible annual ritual.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written'  Donna Tartt\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the definitive collection of Shirley Jackson's short stories,  including  'The Lottery' - one of the most terrifying and iconic stories  of the  twentieth century, and an influence on writers such as Stephen King.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn  these stories 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 annual ritual. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Shirley   Jackson's chilling tales have the  power to unsettle and terrify unlike  any other. She was born in  California in 1916. When her short story \u003ci\u003eThe Lottery \u003c\/i\u003ewas first published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e   in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has   since become one of the greatest American stories of all time. Her   first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Road Through the Wall\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in the same year and was followed by five more: \u003ci\u003eHangsaman\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Bird's Nest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sundial\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Haunting of Hill House \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWe Have Always Lived in the Castle\u003c\/i\u003e, widely seen as her masterpiece. Shirley Jackson died in her sleep at the age of 48.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Her  stories are stunning, timeless - as relevant and terrifying now as  when  they were first published . 'The Lottery' 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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30419883065441,"sku":"9780141191430","price":16.61,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32334792.jpg?v=1737185866","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141191430-lottery-and-other-stories-the","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}