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One of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker in 1948. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. Today it is considered a classic work of short fiction, a story remarkable for its combination of subtle suspense and pitch-perfect descriptions of both the chilling and the mundane.
The Lottery and Other Stories, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery" with twenty-four equally unusual short stories. Together they demonstrate Jackson's remarkable range -- from the hilarious to the horrible, the unsettling to the ominous -- and her power as a storyteller.
- Sales Rank: #28122 in Books
- Brand: Jackson, Shirley
- Published on: 2005-03-16
- Released on: 2005-03-09
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.29" h x .90" w x 5.46" l, .64 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
Review
“The stories remind one of the elemental terrors of childhood.” ―James Hilton, Herald Tribune
“In her art, as in her life, Shirley Jackson was an absolute original. She listened to her own voice, kept her own counsel, isolated herself from all intellectual and literary currents . . . . She was unique.” ―Newsweek
From the Back Cover
"Jackson's great gift is not to create a world of fantasy and terror, but rather to discover the existence of the grotesque in the ordinary world. The grotesque is so powerful here just because it takes off from everyday life and constantly returns there until we do not know ourselves quite where we are."
--Elizabeth Janeway
About the Author
Shirley Jackson (1919–1965) wrote several books, including Hangsaman, Life Among the Savages, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
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103 of 109 people found the following review helpful.
Illuminating snapshots of life
By Daniel Jolley
Many people are familiar with the story "The Lottery," but it is just one of many incredible vignettes of life filling this collection. It is hard to understand today why "The Lottery" originally provoked such a strong reaction, yet it still packs a punch for first-time readers. While it does have aspects of horror, the remaining stories are basically literary. "Flower Garden" and "After You, My Dear Alphonse" deal with racism and would seem to be pretty bold statements for the time period (the book was published in 1948); the latter story seems particularly groundbreaking because of the unusual perspective it provides. "Charles" is a humorous yet illuminating look at the behavior of children, while "Afternoon in Linen" is an important statement on why children sometimes behave as they do. Jackson is at her best when describing the disenchanted adult. The helplessness of women is an important theme in many stories; many of the women described here feel helpless and subservient to their husbands, their neighbors, and their community. "Elizabeth" is a fairly long study of how one woman's wishes and dreams remain unfulfilled in later life. The housewife in "Got a Letter From Jimmy" is thoroughly exasperated by her husband's feelings, and since she cannot speak her mind to him, she is forced to fantasize about killing him. In "The Villager" a woman spontaneously chooses to become someone else entirely for a few minutes, and most of Jackson's heroines spend much time contemplating what could have been. In "Of Course," the fact that a new family has a few unorthodox views builds an unbreachable wall between brand-new neighbors. The women in these stories are always wondering what other people think about them and worrying about what others will say about them. Even when a group of women try to do something good to help the less fortunate, it backfires on them in "Come Dance With Me in Ireland." When a female character vacations with her husband in New York in "Pillar of Salt," she soon becomes "lost," afraid, and desperate to return home. "Colloquy" is the shortest story in the collection, but its protagonist speaks for most of Jackson's female characters when she asks whether she alone or the whole world has gone insane.
My favorite story here is "The Daemon Lover." Herein, Jackson offers one of the most poignant, touching looks at loneliness, desperation, and fragility I have ever read. In the story, we spend a day with the protagonist as she prepares for her wedding, having become engaged just the night before to a James Harris. It is a depressing yet beautiful story, and I actually rate it higher than "The Lottery." The character of James Harris actually flitters throughout several of these stories, a phantom of sorts haunting several of Jackson's more memorable female characters.
Jackson deals with very serious subjects, and the illumination provided by her unusual perspectives on life is vivid and poignant. When addressing racism, she shows how even an individual with the best of intentions and good will can still represent an unfortunate racist attitude. In speaking to morality and social values, she shows how hard it can be for an individual to go against tradition and the community to do what is right. She offers powerful insights on child (and adult) psychology. Even the couple of stories I did not really "get" offered insight into the living of life. Readers should not expect a book of horror stories when they pick up this book. The stories can be maudlin and even depressing, but they are philosophical, psychological, and sociological rather than creepy or spooky.
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Make Sure to Read to the End
By Sarah B
At first, having read and loved The Haunting of Hill House and the Lottery, I was disappointed. The early stories, although well paced and possessed of Jackson's anthropological eye for dissecting social convention as well as her acute, Woolf like attention to a character's inner monologue, despite all this I was...bored.
In the early stories, we follow the repercussions of a revealing event in a character's life. We see how the character reacts and is changed by this strange and important junction. The man you are supposed to marry doesn't show up, and you go looking for him. A single mother moves into the house you always wanted, and your friendship with her is tested and broken by racism. A literary agent, you discover that your whole life is founded on a foolish hope you had when you were young, and you don't know how else to operate, so you gather your cynicism around you as a shield, but continue to supplant one foolish hope with another. The conclusions of these stories, often about social convention, the double-sided and impossible expectations of women, the incredibly nosy and judgmental circles in which they move, ended on abrupt, depressing notes.
Though I appreciated Jackson's style, pace, and unique attention to detail, it seemed to me that even the early stories ached to be...well, weirder. She had such a talent for the uncanny, the slowly building feeling of unease. My favorite stories in this collection were the stories in which Jackson got really weird with it.
I gave this book 4 stars because I think any aspiring writer should read it. Jackson's way of reminding us of our frenzied, most irrational thoughts is something to be studied. The way she builds unease, the way she picks her situations, there's a lot to learn from.
As a reader, my favorite stories, the weirdest ones, are:
"The Witch"--acknowledgement of the dark, macabre side of the child's nature, also, very funny.
"The Daemon Lover"--Kelly Link took her inspiration from Jackson, or from the Scottish ballad about James Harris, the demon lover. James Harris happens to the be the name of a man in many of the stories. The stories skirt around James Harris, or Mr. Harris, the --he's never the main character, but is often the shadowy catalyst of the story's action. Anyway, this is the story that I think represents the bridge between an anxious litfic story that wants to be uncanny, and the minute psychological shifts in a decaying psyche.
"Pillar of Salt" Describes the claustrophobic, frenzied psychosis of a small-town woman in a big city.
"The Tooth" My second favorite! Listen to this: "It was when she stepped a little aside to let someone else get to the basin and stood up and glanced into the mirror that she realized with a slight stinging shock that she had no idea which face was hers."
"The Lottery" Nothing to be said about this one that hasn't already been said. Classic, brilliant, disturbing, so disturbing, one of the cannon of greats.
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Saving the best for the last
By Alex
These stories all have a classic Shirley Jackson aspect in common; you are transported to the time and place and become part of the story, and at the story`s end, you are left feeling a little out of sorts... rarely a "happy" ending here in the traditional sense, but clearly an ending that works for the story. I am most definitely always left wanting more.
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